Certainly no hunting with weapons (no anything with weapons really) did apply in feudal Europe; the nobles were allowed to carry and use a weapon while the peasants were not. As for the trees, that was managed by the feudal owner of the land. Usually some forests were cut down early (between ca. 500-1300 AD) where arable land was under them, the rest was managed and used for construction and heating/cooking. Later many forests were completely cleared at the beginning of the industrial revolution to manufacture charcoal, used in many industrial processes. Some of them are now regrown.

Thats medieval northern europe, aka france, germany, england. The rest, the forrest was basically used up permanently during roman times.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macchie

Also Ireland, Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, parts of Hungary, Romania, Ukraine at least that I know of. But you are right, I thought of the Roman times immediately after finishing my comment.

Oak forrests were very controlled in many European countries, for national security reasons. (Needed to make war ships.)

> allmende

Can't find this word in any English dictionary I checked, what does it mean?

It’s German meaning “commons" - communal lands.

Alemania(SP)/Allemagne(FR) for Germany -- must be related??

Similar etymology, I would suppose “All mans” https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamans

It sounds a lot like "allmänning", which means common land (obviously)