Timber on Easter Island, too, I believe.
Angela
--On Wednesday, January 14, 2009 17:50 +0000 pmgb
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> Timber might be another case, c.f the switch to coal in metalurgy as
> available wood ran out. Recently heard on Radio 4 that the UK has the
> lowest amount of woodland in the EU, which one assumes might in part be
> due to the industrial revolution. Certainly industrial areas of south
> wales had extensive areas of ancient woodland in say the 16th/17th
> centuries that now only exist as tiny fragments.
>
> P G-B
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