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The Lawspeaker
06-16-2020, 01:00 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVPUFMwm73Y

Forests and woodland in the ancient and medieval worlds didn't look the way they show in the movies. I visited a local wildlife sanctuary based in a wood. In order to attract birds, they left the woods unmanaged, so that the undergrowth and rotting falling trees afforded good habitat for insects and ground-nesting birds. I talk about a few things, including climax vegetation, the burning of woods by hunter-gatherers, the medieval practices of coppicing and pollarding, and the way a modern managed woodland (the sort that you almost always see in the movies) looks neither like a heavily-managed medieval wood nor a wilderness unmanaged wood. Lindybeige: a channel of archaeology, ancient and medieval warfare, rants, swing dance, travelogues, evolution, and whatever else occurs to me to make.

gixajo
06-16-2020, 01:31 AM
Maybe a medieval times "managed" wood should be like this one, Otzarreta beechwood in Gorbea natural park, between Álava and Vizcaya provinces:

https://i.imgur.com/a7oqQyv.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/CemSInI.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/lsohQuW.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/XtqoncT.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/MFXrB3z.jpg

Or this one in Guibijo, Álava province also, with an old trap for wolves (convergency trap):

https://i.imgur.com/jligu2i.jpg