• KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyz
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    8 hours ago

    *wasteland

    The reason so much of Scotland is treeless is because humans deforested it and killed off the apex predators, meaning that animals such as deer are free to eat saplings and prevent regeneration

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      Weā€™re talking thousands of years ago though, half of scotland was deforested before the Romansā€™ came