ABSTRACT

In Denmark, up to 10 per cent of the forest-preserved land may be used for woodland grazing (Danish Forest Act, 2004). Woodland grazing is now considered an important tool in the creation and maintenance of diverse and stable woodlands. Prior to this, from the turn of the nineteenth century, woodland grazing was forbidden in Denmark. For about 200 years this resulted in a division of the landscape into agricultural and forestry land with distinct boundaries between land use.