Oliver Rackham

Oliver Rackham (17 October 1939 – 12 February 2015) was a British academic. He studied the British countryside, especially trees, woodlands and wood pasture, Rackham wrote a number of books, including "The History of the Countryside" (1986) and one on Hatfield Forest.
He died on 12 February 2015 at the age of 75.