No more!!!!
There's a nice big meditation stane overlooking the first planting area, but the view across to the city, Arthur's Seat and the sea beyond was blocked by some massive gorse.
No more!!!!
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shaila rao @sjraouk
In 20 years of working @MarLodgeNTS there were times when I never thought I'd see the forest start to regenerate. So uplifting to ski up to Derry Lodge and see the wee pines on the hills. @ReforestingScot @cairngormsnews #rewilding #woodland #forestry #pinewood Greek scientists on the island of Lesbos have found a fossilized tree whose branches and roots are still intact after 20 million years. The tree was found during roadwork near an ancient forest petrified millions of years ago.
In Celtic mythology, elm trees were associated with the Underworld. They had a special affinity with elves who guarded the burial mounds, their dead and the associated passage into the Underworld.
Elm wood withstands wet conditions very well. This meant it was a popular choice for the building of boat and barge hulls, bridge foundations, and cartwheels. Hollowed-out elm was used to make urban water pipes before the introduction of metal ones. Its pliancy was also put to use in a variety of ways. In Scotland the stick used to play shinty, called a caman, was often made from elm as it often has a natural bend already in the wood. Elm wood is traditionally used to make coffins. You can get some from Cheviot Trees. A consortium of conservationists that hopes to release wild lynx into the Scottish Highlands has launched a year-long study to see whether the public supports their reintroduction.
The study, part-funded by two billionaire Danish estate owners in the Highlands, Anders Povlsen and Lisbet Rausing, will test whether farmers, landowners and rural communities will agree to a pilot project in a remote area of Scotland. The lynx, Europe’s largest native cat, became extinct in northern Britain more than 500 years ago through habitat loss, hunting and persecution. It is the forgotten predator that disappeared from Scotland due to fur hunting and habitat loss over 1000 years ago.
Since then the British countryside has been devoid of large carnivores and any memory of living alongside anything larger than a fox or badger has been lost with the brown bear and the wolf also now absent from the landscape. Now new plans have been revealed to reintroduce one predator to Scotland - the Eurasian lynx, which is considered the most suitable candidate for carnivore restoration in Britain. A group of three charities believe that their introduction as a natural predator of deer will have an indirect benefit to maintaining Scotland's woodlands. As a shy and solitary woodland hunter, lynx are rarely glimpsed and attacks on humans are virtually unknown. One, two, tree: how AI helped find millions of trees in the Sahara.
Using AI deep learning, and one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers – Blue Waters at the University of Illinois – the team was able to count individual trees from space for the first time. Thanks to Victor Partridge, I've been granted permission to plant a new area at Hillend Country Park. It's a major hike up to it though! Thanks also to Andrew for the offer of help, and prompting me to ask for another area. I can now see that the area I planted wasn't the one that Victor intended, but Midlothian Council has plans to develop the Snow Sports Centre (just ideas at the moment and need the funding and further planning permission), so it wouldn't be good to plant any trees near the ski area in case it happens.
https://planning-applications.midlothian.gov.uk/OnlinePlanning/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=PRA2Z0KV0B600. |
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