Do you have family in North America?

[Loki]

I don't have any family in America that I know of ... not even in Europe (for the last few centuries at least).

[Útrám]

I have some distant cousins in Oregon state, never met them. I would like to visit them sometime and see Oregon's enormous trees, I like trees and I live in a country with virtually none.

[Osweo]

I like trees and I live in a country with virtually none.

I always wondered about that. I think I read in the sagas that the island was tree covered when your forebears got there, yes? Would that have been the sort of stumpy dwarf birches and things you see up in northern Russia and the like? Sheltered spots could surely keep a few decent size trees too. And willows and birch can manage just about everywhere. Is there any movement to reforest some parts? That might be nice to see.

I'd like our empty moors to see some return to woodland, too.

[Útrám]

I always wondered about that. I think I read in the sagas that the island was tree covered when your forebears got there, yes? Would that have been the sort of stumpy dwarf birches and things you see up in northern Russia and the like? Sheltered spots could surely keep a few decent size trees too. And willows and birch can manage just about everywhere. Is there any movement to reforest some parts? That might be nice to see.

I'd like our empty moors to see some return to woodland, too.

A combination of overconsumption, volcano eruptions and matches twiddling

[quotablepatella]

I'd like our empty moors to see some return to woodland, too.

That would be great, and would put the moors to good use.

[Útrám]

That would be great, and would put the moors to good use.

Don't you already have enough Moor convenient store cashiers?

[quotablepatella]

Don't you already have enough Moor convenient store cashiers?

Those moors are a lot more colourful than the ones we have here.

[Allenson]

Interesting--I found the wide open moors of the Isles to be quite facinating, stark & yet beautiful (except those damn midgies!). We have nothing of the sort here except for the high mountain peaks which are above treeline.

[Treffie]

I'd like our empty moors to see some return to woodland, too.

Not pine forest please - not much can survive in these areas. It's better to keep the moorland.

[Osweo]

Not pine forest please - not much can survive in these areas. It's better to keep the moorland.

Oh good lord, no! I can't stand those endless plantations! There's enough of them already. I'm talking oak, ash, birch and rowan! Derw, onn, bettws, and cerddyn! I love beechwoods too, but I don't think they'd be as suitable up in such exposed places.

Mind you, red squirrels, martens and crossbills like pine, don't they? If it's done in proper old Caledonian style with the right sorts of pine. Capercaillies too. I saw some up in Furness a while back - great sight!