Most British forests stand in the uplands of Scotland, Northern England, and Wales. ‘Uplands' is a broad rather than precise term for the extensive areas of Britain where land is generally above 200 m and thus includes the Highlands and Southern Uplands of Scotland, the northern Pennines and Yorkshire Moors in England, and the Cambrian Mountains which extend over most of Wales. The forests in these areas comprise about 80 percent of the 2 million hectares of productive forest in Britain.
