Hay bales punctuate a characteristically tree-poor British landscape. Since the late 1940s Great Britain has lost up to half of its ancient woodlands, 95 percent of its flower-rich hay meadows, most of its lowland heaths, and many of its lowland ponds.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Hedgerows," September 1993, National Geographic magazine)
