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FB:
Thanks. I guess there's a word for just about everything. I took a picutre of one of these trees in the side yard of a lovely old house in Ocracoke NC, this summer. I'd had about as much as I could stand of being cooped up with two kids during a rainy day, even though the hotel room was 1400 (yep 1400!) SF. So I took a walk in a gentle misting rain, called in Ireland a soft day, and saw this coppiced tree.
I'll look it up on the disk and send it to anyone who asks.
TEd
PS:
I have this REALLY neat new digital camera that records directly onto a CD-RW in the camera, and can take more than 300 pictures on one disk! Goodbye film!
TR
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Of course, some plants won't do this coppice stuff. Members of the mint family are typical, subscribing to the legal theory of non coppice mintis.
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A misty day is a soft day? Is there a hard day, too, in Ireland?
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coppicing is a very ancient form of woodland management in Britain. As has been suggested, above, it involves cutting young trees (about 8 year old, usually - does depend a bit on the variety of tree) back to about a foot above ground level and allowing it to re-grow. The new growth takes the form of sefveral thin shoots which, after about five or six years are thick enough to be harveted and the poles used for a variety of purposes. One of the main ones was to make charcoal, which was a major fuel in Britain until the late C18, when the canal system made transpoirt of mined coal so much cheaper that most people could afford it. (By which time, the tree population of Britain had become greatly depleted, from the demands of ship-building and house-building.)
Another use for coppiced wood was for the making of hurdles and baskets. In the southern parts of what is now Cumbria, coppiced oak was used to make large baskets which were so close woven that, without any sort of caulking, they would hold water.
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As Macbeth said when he saw Birnam wood bearing down on Dunsinane, "Cheese it, the copse!"
Sorry, couldn't resist.
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Dear slithy: I'll bet you cannot find a mention of camouflage older than the one you mentiond. And a URL with a picture of a coppiced tree in RC's region. http://www.strum.co.uk/scratch/everdon.htm
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a mention of camouflage older than the one you
mentiond
Probably not, Dr.Bill. Obviously it's existed in nature forever, but when was it first mentioned?
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I just found out last night that one of the women in our chorus is Katy Payne's daughter (Katy herself has sung in the chorus in the past) and I told her about our discussion of her mother's use of coppice. Katy is off in England involved in some animal conference. The elephant wasn't there, being in the refrigerator at the time.
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ok, I'll bite:
the elephant is in the refrigerator?
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