"Somewhere here, a landscape has been lost...". In UK, landscapes such as the Highlands of Scotland, The Lake District and Dartmoor are symbols of wilderness. However, these places have been farmed, mined and inhabited by people for millennia. In hidden corners of the moor, relics of its past cling on relics that point to the bizarre fact that when humans first arrived here, these open landscapes were temperate rainforests.
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