Moving Forest
" Macbeth was very surprised when he saw the Forest of Dunsinane “moving,” but he would have had an even greater shock had he seen a forest of 65,000 young fir and pine trees moving a thousand miles. Yet that is what happened recently in Norway when two-year-old trees grown at a forestry school near Tromso were uprooted and flown r to- Iceland, where experimentsin tree-growing are being carried out. Although there are no large forests in Iceland (birch woods exist in mahy places, but the trees'rarely exceed ten feet., in. height), geologists. havjg discovered that largareas of woodland did exist thousands of years ago, and it is hoped the young trees will form the basis of* new forests.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 17, 8 November 1948, Page 7
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120Moving Forest Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 17, 8 November 1948, Page 7
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