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StewardsofGondor S
StewardsofGondor Dec 14, 2006 17:06:25
Replying to Rhiannon

Rhiannon wrote:
Depends how tall your mountain is dunnit. There's a natural tree line above which they won't grow and you get smaller and smaller things. But I can't find the altitude of this in Britain. Scots pines are native - you can get natural scots pine forests here.
it's not a native Irish tree though, (as far as i know) as well as that, the thin soil found there and the amount of leeching that takes place on an exposed piece of ground like that would mean that the top of a mountain of any considerable height, can't support large vegetation like that, i would assume.

F FourWinds
FourWinds Dec 15, 2006 07:56:11
Replying to StewardsofGondor

The Scots Pine is not native to Ireland. They were introduced, along with the larch, by the British landgrabbers for their estates.

The tops of the Wicklow Mountains, for example, were extremely fertile pre-bog growth and much of the area's population probably lived up there, especially during the summer months. In one of the Annals it states that the Dublin plane was the only lowland area that was unwooded when the first people arrived in Ireland. Obviously a bit of an exageration, but it does show that folk memory knew that much fo Ireland was once covered in trees.