The woods for the state

During the period and aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars longstanding fears about timber supply became an imminent risk throughout Europe as a result of an increased pace of ship-building for private as well as military purposes, increasing use of timber for non-naval purposes.¹ These years also saw a...

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Zusammenfassung:During the period and aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars longstanding fears about timber supply became an imminent risk throughout Europe as a result of an increased pace of ship-building for private as well as military purposes, increasing use of timber for non-naval purposes.¹ These years also saw a plethora of writing about trees in Britain that was strikingly literary, concerned with securing scientific knowledge, and highly critical of the state. In 1831, sixteen years after Napoleon had been defeated, the Scottish landowner Patrick Matthew published a book titledOn Naval Timber, which discussed recent attempts by the government to plant