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#1)  Iceland

Postby PAwildernessadvocate » Mon Jul 19, 2010 9:51 am

The Icelandic Sagas allude to a heavily forested island when the Vikings first arrived. Now Iceland is not heavily forested. However, material and debris uncovered by archeologists have confirmed that the Sagas were likely correct, and that 1,000 years of colonization and use has simply resulted in mass deforestation in the case of Iceland.
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