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    Oliver Rackham OBE, FBA (17 October 1939 – 12 February 2015) was an academic at the University of Cambridge who studied the ecology, management and development...
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  • John Rackham (writer) Melinda Rackham (born 1959), Australian networked artist and writer Oliver Rackham (1939–2015), English botanist Sharon Rackham (born...
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    "Plato's Sacred Olive Tree Vanished". Olive Oil Times. Archived from the original on 14 October 2017. Retrieved 14 October 2017. Oliver Rackham; Jennifer Alice...
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    is uncertainty about how many moors were created by human activity. Oliver Rackham writes that pollen analysis shows that some moorland, such as in the...
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    its vulnerability for wildfires. Referring to heathland in England, Oliver Rackham says, "Heaths are clearly the product of human activities and need to...
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    2017-01-18 at the Wayback Machine Cyprus Geologic Survey A.T. Grove, Oliver Rackham, The Nature of Mediterranean Europe: An Ecological History, Yale, 2001...
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    Woodlands, The New Naturalist Library, Oliver Rackham, p416 Woodlands, The New Naturalist Library, Oliver Rackham, p66 The London Encyclopaedia, Weinreb...
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    specimen persisted in the area until at least 1986 when the naturalist Oliver Rackham noted "Nearby, in the midst of railway dereliction, a single Black Poplar...
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    original on 21 June 2009. Retrieved 15 April 2009. Grove, Alfred Thomas; Oliver Rackham (2003). The Nature of Mediterranean Europe: An Ecological History (2...
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    managed through traditional practices, was developed by the ecologist Oliver Rackham in his 1980 book Ancient Woodland, its History, Vegetation and Uses...
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    fungus, had possibly been present in north-west Europe for some time. Dr Oliver Rackham of Cambridge University presented evidence of an outbreak of elm disease...
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    Arthur Rackham RWS (19 September 1867 – 6 September 1939) was an English book illustrator. He is recognised as one of the leading figures during the Golden...
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  • geomorphological consequences in Mediterranean Europe' and together with Oliver Rackham', The Nature of Mediterranean Europe', an important contribution to...
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    into the post-storm clean-up of forests and wooded areas. The writer Oliver Rackham and the charity Common Ground were active in trying to prevent unnecessary...
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  • timber at a later date. It was formerly practiced in Britain although Oliver Rackham notes that "The medieval practice of shredding – cropping the side-branches...
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    Mediterranean Europe: An Ecological History, by Alfred Thomas Grove, Oliver Rackham, Yale University Press, 2003, review at Yale university press Archived...
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    microspecies in some areas, mainly in the Ulmus field elm (Ulmus minor) group. Oliver Rackham describes Ulmus as the most critical genus in the entire British flora...
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    basketball coach Oliver Pusztai (born 1981), Hungarian footballer Oliver Chase Quick (1885–1944), English theologian Oliver Rackham (1939–2015), English...
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    Dagenham Post. Retrieved 9 August 2021. History of the Countryside by Oliver Rackham, 1986 p19 "Barking AP/CP through time | Population Statistics | Area...
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    Kiminas, The Ecumenical Patriarchate, 2009, ISBN 1434458768, p. 122 Oliver Rackham and Jennifer Moody (1996). The Making of the Cretan Landscape. Manchester...
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    Northamptonshire. It was the subject of a book by the academic and woodland expert Oliver Rackham, listed below, who regularly visited and recorded his observations of...
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    book about the site, The Last Forest, botanist and rural historian Oliver Rackham argues that "Hatfield is of supreme interest in that all the elements...
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    Mediterranean Europe: An Ecological History, by Alfred Thomas Grove, Oliver Rackham, Yale University Press, 2003, review at Yale university press Archived...
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    that is not to say the majority of Essex was wooded. The naturalist Oliver Rackham carried out an analysis of Domesday returns for Essex and was able to...
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  • obituaries of botanists, conservationists, and naturalists, including Oliver Rackham, David Bellamy, Hugh Synge, and Eva Crane. He has contributed a satirical...
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    Beechmast has also traditionally been fed to pigs. However, by 4000 BC, as Oliver Rackham has indicated, the dominant tree species was not the beech, but the...
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  • Red Rackham's Treasure (French: Le Trésor de Rackham le Rouge) is the twelfth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist...
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    May 1899. Retrieved 21 November 2009. The History of the Countryside, Oliver Rackham, 1986 Hackney: Introduction, A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume...
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    Constable, London. 1982. ISBN 0-09-464060-2. Indeed, according to Oliver Rackham, the beginnings of Wealden heathland, including Ashdown's, which he...
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  • ": 1244  Environmental historians Joachim Radkau, Alfred Thomas Grove and Oliver Rackham criticized Hardin "as an American with no notion at all how Commons...
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