Urban Forests - Urban Forests in the United Kingdom, Urban Forests in the United States, Central Park, Forest Park (Portland, Oregon) (Paperback)

Chapters: Urban Forests in the United Kingdom, Urban Forests in the United States, Central Park, Forest Park (Portland, Oregon), Golden Gate Park, Epping Forest, Sonian Forest, New York Botanical Garden, Forest Park (Queens, New York), Barton Creek Greenbelt, Jefferson Memorial Forest, Duke Forest, Fernbank Forest, Thames Chase, Vista Rock, Lehigh Parkway. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 93. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Winter sunset in the Sonian Forest.The Sonian Forest (Dutch: Zonienwoud, French: Foret de Soignes ) is a 4,421-hectare (10,920-acre) forest that lies across the south-eastern part of Brussels, Belgium.The forest lies in the Flemish municipalities of Sint-Genesius-Rode, Hoeilaart, Overijse and Tervuren, in Uccle, Watermael-Boitsfort, Auderghem and Woluwe-Saint-Pierre in the Brussels-Capital Region and in the Walloon towns of La Hulpe and Waterloo . Thus it stretches out over the three Belgian Regions.It is maintained by Flanders (56 %), the Brussels-Capital Region (38 %) and Wallonia (6 %). There are some contiguous tracts of privately-held forest and the Kapucijnenbos, the "Capuchin Wood," which belongs to the Royal Trust .History Even, dense old-growth stand of beech trees (Fagus sylvatica ) prepared to be regenerated by their saplings in the understory, in the Brussels part of the Sonian ForestThe forest is part of the scattered remains of the ancient Silva Carbonaria or Charcoal Forest. The first mention of the Sonian Forest (Soniaca Silva ) dates from the early Middle Ages. Then the forest south of Brussels was crossed by the river Zenne/Senne and extended as far as Hainaut, covering most of the high ground between the Zenne and the Dijle . The ninth-century vita of Saint Foillan mentions "the forest, next to the abbey of Saint Gertrude, called the Sonesian" In the sixteenth cent...