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Hidden Giants: how the UK's 500k redwoods put California in the shade (theguardian.com)
5 points by benrmatthews 818 days ago
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It was decades of mismanagement by the government that prevented ranchers and others from setting the yearly fires, starting in the 1960s. Now these same people, who often live hundreds of miles away and often have never even been there are offering solutions?
I thought every tree in the uk turned into an 18th century boat
These are trees grown since then.