Click through to the full article and you will find embedded an ad for the website, "Single Baltic Lady"! What kind of "fieldwork" have they been doing???
Also, there is a picture of the castle they are working in that supposedly decimated the forests - it's made of brick.
It basically looks like a bunch of envirowackos stumbling around trying to write a P.C., environmentally correct history in which the Knights are the bad guys and the pagan Slavs the good guys. They took their plot line from Avatar.
Too bad. I know very little about these crusades or the state the Teutonic Knights founded. Like to learn more.
Well, they’d need to burn up the wood to bake the bricks, but hey, those trees woudl have died anyway. :’)