England's dying Sherwood Forest needs money - Reuters

England's dying Sherwood Forest needs money
Tue Sep 4, 2007 2:46PM EDT

LONDON (Reuters) - Sherwood Forest, home to Britain's
legendary Robin Hood who took from the rich and gave
to the poor, needs money -- 50 million pounds ($100
million) to be precise.

Nearly half of Sherwood's remaining oak trees are dead
or dying and the rate of death is accelerating from an
average of one a year for the past 20 years to five a
year now mainly because of old age.

Forest rangers predict that this rate could double in
the near future.

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Now less than 1,000 oaks remain -- some of which
would have been saplings in Hood's era -- and most are
between 300 and 800 years old because of a planting
hiatus that lasted between 300 and 150 years ago.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL0484577120070904

All I ever saw on the occasions we drove past was a solitary treeline