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Miriam Dobson: Not all trees are useful

Source: London Review of Books ·

By the late 1600s, the most important commodity from Russia’s forests was no longer fur or fish; it was the trees themselves. The expanding Russian Empire required a naval fleet to defend itself: oaks, larch and pine were chopped down to build ships. Forests became a resource to be managed.

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