CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright

Stuart Max Walters 1920–2005

Author’s Foreword and Acknowledgements

1 The Constant Spring: What Trees and Woods Are and How They Behave

2 Some Less Familiar Properties of Trees: Roots, Partnerships, Longevity, Tree Rings, Sap-Sucking, Fire

3 Outline of Woodland History

4 Pollen Analysis and Wildwood

5 Wildwood into Woodland

6 Of Wood-Pasture and Savanna

7 Archives of Woodland and How to Study Them

8 Archaeology and Land-Forms of Woodland and Wood-Pasture

9 Pictures and Photographs

10 Woodland in the Field: Evidence of Present Soils, Trees and Vegetation

11 Uses of Wood and Timber: Reconstructing the Woods from Buildings, Hurdles and Ships

12 Ancient-Woodland Plants and Other Creatures

13 Wild and Planted Trees

14 Some Types of Woodland: Lowland Zone

15 Some Types of Woodland: Highland Zone and Ireland

16 Caledonian Pinewoods

17 Environment, Pathology and Ecology: Damage, Disease, Defoliation

18 Modern Forestry: its Rise and Fall

19 Modern Forestry: its Legacy. Plantations as Ecosystems

20 On Investigating a Wooded Forest: Blackmoor

21 Experiments and Long-Term Observations

22 The Recent Past and the Future

References

Bibliography

Tables

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