Just now reading a book called The Roads And Tracks Of Britain and it states that the island was extensively farmed from one end to the other during the Neolithic. Forests burnt off, as did the American Indians. Reverted to forest later. Interesting.
Yes, I am told that the Indians in WA state, where I live, burned the forests and underbrush periodically, whenever the forests became too thick for wild life to proliferate. Now the enviro-nazis want to “preserve” the old growth forests for the sake of the marbled murrelet. They gave up on the spotted owl when one nested in a traffic circle in Everett.