An Environmental History of Wildlife in England 1650-1950

(^32) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england trapped or shot in vast numbers by local people. Richard Reyce described i ...

sevenTeenTh-CenTury environmenTs: Woodland and WasTe 33 and invertebrates found within the drainage ditches or ‘dykes’ were high ...

(^34) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england peat digging) and extensive reed and sedge beds. Many contained a range of ...

sevenTeenTh-CenTury environmenTs: Woodland and WasTe 35 The management of commons With the exception of coppiced woods and many ...

(^36) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england sense that they were both created and sustained by human activity. In some ...

ChapTer Three Seventeenth-century environments: Farmland meadows and pastures Woods, moors, heaths, common pastures and wetlands ...

(^38) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england used to keep livestock alive through the winter when the grass does not gr ...

sevenTeenTh-CenTury environmenTs: farmland^39 upstream fed water into channels (‘carriers’ or ‘carriages’) which ran along the t ...

(^40) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england able to grow in aerobic conditions by stimulating the development of stolo ...

sevenTeenTh-CenTury environmenTs: farmland^41 pectin-veneris) and Venus’ looking-glass (Legousia hybrida) – all thrived. Arable ...

(^42) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england nucleated villages, and of extensive open fields; the latter characterized ...

sevenTeenTh-CenTury environmenTs: farmland^43 figure 8 Reconstructions of the layout of open fields in Northamptonshire before e ...

(^44) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england hedge within the fields themselves, of uncertain function or origin, as at ...

sevenTeenTh-CenTury environmenTs: farmland^45 In addition, smaller groups of strips were often turned over to pasture by neighbo ...

(^46) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england farming economy, especially the emergence of specialized pastoral district ...

sevenTeenTh-CenTury environmenTs: farmland^47 represented direct intakes from ancient woodland, preserving the slow- colonizing ...

(^48) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england problems for farmers because the new growth required protection from brows ...

sevenTeenTh-CenTury environmenTs: farmland^49 remains debated.^44 They certainly provide a prime habitat in their own right for ...

(^50) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england in 1651 boasting an average of 38 trees per hectare, while at Thorndon in ...

sevenTeenTh-CenTury environmenTs: farmland^51 in contrast, continued to produce reasonable crops of wood well into old age. More ...