Was moorland once tree covered?

Question

were the yorkshire moors once covered in trees?

were the trees cut down by humans?

they are huge spaces of emptiness. who cut them down and where did they live?

Answer 1

Yes, the North Yorkshire Moors were covered in trees, This is supported by lots of evidence from pollen samples recovered from ancient core samples.

The trees were cut down during the Neolithic, and onwards both to provide fuel and to produce open grazing for neolithic herdmen's sheep. The sheep grazing prevented regeneration of the forest, and this couples with slight cooling over the last 10,000 years has left us with the bracken covered moors we how see.

The flat valley (Vale of Pickering) between Staxton Wold and the Moors was a huge lake in early postglacial times and this was occupied in mesolithic times http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Carr by a culture that used the site for fishing and hunting in the summer months

Answer 2

yes.  yes.  the beaker people.  in the bronze age ~ 2,000 b.c.  destroyed much of the original forest....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_York_...