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Aragon Ruano a Paper.Indd Landscape Archaeology and Ecology Review - End of Tradition Sept 2010 Vol xx Guided pollards in the Basque Country (Spain) during the Early Modern Ages Alvaro Aragón Ruano University of the Basque Country Introduction second half of the fifteenth and the first half Incompatibility between the rate of forest of the sixteenth centuries, putting enormous exploitation and the voracity of production pressure on the area’s rich forest resources. In activities, on the one hand, and the biological light of this situation, a sustainable system rhythms and growth rate of leafy species on was required which would be capable of the other was one of the major problems responding to the needs of different activities. facing humanity in the field of forest This, then, is the main reason for the husbandry throughout the Modern Ages. The appearance of the ipinabarros, ipenabarres or rate at which demand for raw materials by the guided or shaped pollard oaks, created using handcraft and industrial sectors grew was the horca y pendón method, in which one tree clearly faster than the growth rate of the was left standing every 4.5 metres, and of its various tree species themselves, causing main branches, all but two or three were cut deforestation and scarcity of raw materials to off. Those that were left were pruned to a become increasingly serious problems. height of 3 metres, one at a right angle to the main trunk (the horca or fork), and the other In Gipuzkoa up until the nineteenth at an obtuse angle (the pendón or standard). century, 80% was common land and just 20% was private property. However, during the Middle Ages there was almost free use of the land. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries it was gradually restricted to protect the interests of industry, although ordinary people had rights to graze livestock and cut the trees for domestic use, with some limits. In their effort to ensure the sustainability of woodlands, forests and their related activities, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, the inhabitants of Gipuzkoa introduced a number of different forestry techniques in an attempt to achieve the highest possible level of productivity with the limited forest resources available in their small (1,997 square kilometres) mountainous region. These techniques gradually evolved over time, in Figure 1. Guided pollard in Makutso (Oiartzun) accordance with the needs and priorities of economic activities and the abundance or The beginnings of the technique scarcity of forest materials and resources. The first references to Ipenabarres (a Basque word that means to put or leave a branch) in Ipinabarres or guided pollard the Gipuzkoa region are linked to the Deba oaks and Urola river basins and date from the The demographic and economic expansion 1530s. Nevertheless, the technique had been which occurred in Gipuzkoa during the Late in use in the Castilian region since at least the Middle Ages reached its climax during the end of the 15th century, mainly in connection 1 Landscape Archaeology and Ecology Review - End of Tradition Sept 2010 Vol xx with the development of pasturelands. By The spread of the technique means of an ordinance dated 28 October 1496, throughout Gipuzkoa the Catholic Monarchs ordered that trees In other areas, outside the aforementioned should no longer be cut down from the base Deba and Urola river valleys, guided pollards, of the trunk, but rather should be left with two or ipinabarros, were unknown, or at least the (or sometimes three) main branches (the technique was not applied until the end of the aforementioned horca y pendón) from which seventeenth century. Most of Gipuzkoa’s new shoots would be able to sprout. However, woodland areas were covered with coppices it seems that this practice did not become and maiden trees, at least until the seventeenth common in Gipuzkoa until 1548. In the Juntas century. This seems to have been the Generales (or General Assembly) held in predominant situation throughout the Late Zumaia between 14 and 24 April 1548, in Middle Ages, as indicated also by the light of the increasing deforestation and the municipal bylaws. According to the Juntas general concern over the scarcity of timber in Generales, in 1564 coppices occupied at least the region for building ships and wood for a third of Gipuzkoa’s woodland area, and making charcoal, in addition to ordering the continued to predominate in towns with a planting of 500 oaks and chestnut trees every strong ironworking tradition, such as Legazpi year on the commons, the Juntas decreed that (1591), Oiartzun (1611-1691) and Hernani no tree should be felled, with the exception of (1662). those destined for the shipyards and the construction of buildings, and that those used Indeed, the survey carried out by royal for firewood and charcoal should be turned decree in 1569 by Doctor Hernando Suárez de into guided pollards. The concern over Toledo, which aimed to determine the degree forestry resources was not exclusive to the of compliance with the 1563 Royal Order Gipuzkoan authorities, and voices rang out all commanding the planting of oaks for the over the Iberian Peninsula and Europe also, Royal Armada in all areas within two leagues warning of the problems of deforestation. from the sea (an order which Gipuzkoa failed to fulfil), found that two forest models By the middle of the sixteenth century, the coexisted in the region. One was that of scarcity of materials, mainly for the coppices, mainly used for charcoal construction and shipbuilding industries, production, although with the disadvantage forced Gipuzkoa to issue the aforementioned that when they were cut or pruned, livestock order in 1548 and to petition Carlos I for the could no longer be allowed to graze in the confirmation of another order issued by the area because they would eat the spring. The Elgoibar Juntas Generales on 10 May 1552, other model was that of maiden trees, which regarding the management of coppices. The did not have the disadvantage of the coppices; order recommended that guided pollard oaks livestock could be left to graze beneath the be left standing in the coppices at 22 metre trees without fear that they would harm the intervals. Curiously enough, towns like new growth. These trees were used mainly for Elgoibar, Hernani, Errenteria and Oiartzun, in shipbuilding and the production of charcoal. which coppices were common and the principal industrial activity was ironworking, According to the aforementioned survey, rejected the order and voted against it. the predominance of coppices during that Consequently, the confirmation was issued but period was more common in towns such as in a modified form, with the principal change Elgoibar, Legazpi, Errenteria, Oiartzun, being the distance between the pollard trees Hondarribia and Hernani, which had strong left standing, established as 33.5 metres ties to the iron and steel industry. In other instead of 22 metres. towns, such as Zarautz, for example, maiden trees were more common, while in Zumaia, pollards existed alongside the coppices. Deba, on the other hand, had a few trees from which knees (known locally as corbatones) could be obtained, while in Getaria, the majority of the 2 Landscape Archaeology and Ecology Review - End of Tradition Sept 2010 Vol xx woodland areas were dedicated to the replaced by pollards. This change, however, production of these parts. We can see, then, was not without its difficulties and in 1658, a that in those towns with a strong iron and legal dispute ensued regarding the new cutting steel industry, coppices were most common, system, which ended in its generalised whereas in the coastal villages, which were enforcement. The practice was definitively more concerned with shipbuilding, it was not established in the aforementioned woodland unusual to find a combination of coppices, areas in 1671, after the Concordia held in maiden trees and pollards used for producing Astigarraga on 21 March that same year parts for the shipyards. The majority of people between Donostia, Hernani and Urnieta surveyed agreed upon the general lack not of decreed that every cut must leave kept and straight wood, but rather of curved wood. guide branches. From then on, in the firewood Suárez de Toledo himself affirmed that in auctions of the Montes Francos of the Gipuzkoa coppices and straight woodland Urumea, foresters were expressly ordered to areas (used for plank production) were most respect the rulings of the 1671 Concordia, and common, while in Biscaya, twisted wood were prohibited from felling those oaks (used for shipbuilding) was more abundant. In marked for guided pollarding, known as Biscaya, it was not customary to cut maiden ypinabarros. Something very similar was trees destined for charcoal production from occurring meanwhile in the nearby towns of the base of the trunk, but rather from the base Oiartzun and Errenteria, where an order was of the branches in order to pollard them. issued to leave oaks suitable for pollarding at intervals of 6.5 metres in the coppices. All the towns along the coast and in the immediate environment (Hondarribia, Unlike what had occurred previously, Donostia, Zarautz, Getaria, Zumaia, Zestoa, during the eighteenth century, the number of Azpeitia, Elgoibar and Mutriku) coincided in coppices decreased notably, although they highlighting the lack of trees available for continued to be used (mainly) for the basket- shipbuilding, and the need to import them weaving and barrel-making industries. The from Biscaya, where they were more reason for this decrease was that most of the abundant. Errenteria, for example, had been woodland areas and forests in Gipuzkoa were doing this for quite a while. One of the keys now occupied by pollards and maiden trees. It to the question was that the aforementioned is more than likely that the needs of the Real 1552 ordinance regarding coppices, which Company of Caracas, from 1728 onwards, and specified that a guided pollard be left every the Royal Armada, following the Royal Order 33.5 metres, had not been respected along the of 1748 (with its specific chapter for coast, and was difficult to enforce.
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