An Environmental History of Wildlife in England 1650-1950

(^92) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england were hard, although not impossible, to adopt where open fields existed, bu ...

The revoluTion in agriCulTure^93 intensity of weeding. This required large inputs of labour, and in a host of other ways the ‘ne ...

(^94) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england Some writers on wildlife employ the term ‘ high farming ’ to describe the ...

The revoluTion in agriCulTure^95 were developments in farming infrastructure, with new forms of building; significant levels of ...

(^96) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england involved the dissolution of the age-old distinction between permanent arab ...

The revoluTion in agriCulTure^97 or even nationally rare. The nineteenth-century botanist George Claridge Druce was told how the ...

(^98) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england more intensive cultivation of arable land; the proliferation of hedges and ...

The revoluTion in agriCulTure^99 the improvement of their rough pastures or by ploughing; vast numbers of pollards were felled. ...

(^100) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england was ever dreamed of a few years ago’.^39 Typical was the transformation o ...

The revoluTion in agriCulTure^101 reasonable crop from the poor soils of the arable. Indeed, a modified form of the old folding ...

(^102) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england conditions. The first was erected, at Sutton St Edmund in Lincolnshire, i ...

The revoluTion in agriCulTure^103 never discussed as such is a reminder that very few people really believe that all of England’ ...

(^104) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england new hedges planted when the open fields and commons were enclosed. In the ...

The revoluTion in agriCulTure^105 some sandy areas of eastern England, especially Breckland, Scots pine hedges were favoured; wh ...

(^106) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england the countryside around Horncastle in the heart of the Wolds was ‘the want ...

The revoluTion in agriCulTure^107 them away’.^76 Perhaps of even greater importance was the loss of numerous ancient coppiced wo ...

(^108) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england The pattern of farming Wildlife was affected by developments in the pract ...

The revoluTion in agriCulTure^109 produced would itself have benefited birds like the greenfinch and linnet, for a proportion of ...

(^110) an environmenTal hisTory of Wildlife in england taken time for a rich and complex sward to develop, certain features of t ...

The revoluTion in agriCulTure^111 John Bailey Denton, for example, thought that ‘floods are more quickly precipitated into the v ...