2 young yobs shouting abuse from a distance makes me uneasy, they're not daft enough to cause some damage, are they?
Wee trees doing fine, cleared the grass around some and planted 2 more silver birches.
2 young yobs shouting abuse from a distance makes me uneasy, they're not daft enough to cause some damage, are they?
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FOR those traversing one of Scotland's highest and most exposed roads, it has become a beloved landmark: a lone rowan that grows inexplicably atop a craggy boulder on the rain-strewn and wind-lashed expanse of Rannoch Moor.
This small, solitary tree can be seen on the left-hand side of the A82, around five miles north of Bridge of Orchy, as the road climbs above the Loch Tulla Viewpoint heading towards Glen Coe. The shortlist is: The Climate Change Tree, near Alloa The Lord President's Oak, near Inverness The Millarrochy Oak, Loch Lomond Queen Mary's Thorn, St Andrews The Survivor Tree, Carrifran Click on the link to vote for that tree. Last year's winner: Last Ent of Glen Affric
Reforesting Scotland's 'Land Revival Tour' was back again in 2019, this time visiting people, communities and businesses in the Trossachs and Central Scotland.
Delegates from a wide variety of professional backgrounds came together to witness flourishing examples of the Reforesting Scotland vision, which is: "Healthy communities living in a well-forested land". For more information, or if you would like to be involved in future Land Revival Tours, please head to our website: reforestingscotland.org/projects/scotlands-land-revival/ The Cubbington pear tree is the second-largest in England, a local landmark and was tree of the year in 2015.
Yet, despite years of protests, it is being felled for the HS2 railway line. Estimated to be 250 years old. It still bears fruit every year. The lunatics have taken over the asylum. Alan Watson Featherstone describes in detail his brilliant work doing earth repair in Scotland.
So many features of desiccated landscapes are just things the people have got used to - the way things are have been that way so long that they can't imagine them being any other way. Scotland underwent a local extinction of large trees and indeed all sorts of life followed - creating the plain and treeless landscape we know today. This man has been working directly for decades to help bring back this extinct ecosystem, and to restore what once was so long ago! "Caledonia" was a Roman word for "wooded heights" because at the time it was the truth - today it is an ironic historical misnomer that Mr. Featherstone is working to correct. Check out more of Alan's work with the "Trees for Life" foundation of Scotland here: https://treesforlife.org.uk/news/arti... Support our ongoing channel here: http://patreon.com/globalearthrepair and our Facebook page here: http://facebook.com/globalearthrepair Nearly 30 years ago, Alan Watson-Featherstone stood in the Universal Hall in Findhorn and in front of 300 people made a life-long commitment to restore the ancient Caledonian Forest.
He started with no resources, no knowledge, no access to land, no funds, but his passion and inspiration have carried him forward and now his charity Trees for Life not only helps nature to restore the Scottish Highland - it also helps people reconnect with their spirit, with hope and with the land. Alan's talk also includes a wide range of his photography illustrating both the damage to the land and the difference his work makes. Alan is the Founder and Visionary of Trees for Life since 1989, with overall responsibility for the charity and its strategic direction. His work includes a special focus on media and public relations, major donor fundraising and biodiversity research at Dundreggan Conservation Estate. This short film sees the results of an inspired groups vision to rewild a deserted Scottish Island - Isle Martin in North West Scotland. Em Magenta, one of the core team creating this amazing 30 year rewilding transformation of a grassy bedrock island into a thriving wildlife rich forest.
Visited my tree planting site at Hillend Country Park and did some much-needed weeding – pleased to see that most of the planting has survived - in particular, I've managed to save some of my hollies and a wee oak tree from the mauling they got when somebody removed the tree protectors.
Osprey chicks at Loch Arkaig have now fledged!
Watch our live osprey cam to see Doddie, Captain and Vera get ready for their migration at the end of August. Golden eagles have bred at a "rewilding" estate in the Scottish Highlands for the first time in 40 years.
An eagle pair successfully reared the chick at an artificial eyrie on the 10,000-acre Trees for Life Dundreggan estate, high on a rocky crag, on the remains of an old nest site. Its purpose was to encourage a pair of golden eagles to mate. It was made using branches from the native pines and birch trees that cover the mountain slopes. Doug Gilbert is the manager of the estate. He has been checking the eyrie every spring for the last five years. He described it as a "rewilding successes story beyond our wildest dreams". He told the BBC: "I feel elated. Absolutely amazing. To have done a little bit of management, and to have a wild bird decide it's a good place to be, and produce a chick, then it's wonderful." Mr Gilbert said the "rewilding" approach adopted at Dundreggan had helped. The estate used to be managed for deer stalking, and the animals tend to graze on tender saplings before they can become mature. Now the deer population has been reduced to a level where trees can grow again. "Golden eagle-friendly" mountaintop forests have been replanted, containing tough, waist-high "wee trees", such as dwarf birch and downy willow. There has been a recorded increase in black grouse, which is an important food source for golden eagles. However Mr Gilbert said: "I do worry for the safety of the chick. They are renowned for wandering quite far distances. There are several black spots where eagles regularly disappear. Some of them are well within range of a young golden eagle - just 50 km away, and chicks can travel for 100-150km." "What we are doing here won't change the course of history," said Mr Gilbert. "But if we can produce one chick, rather than one being killed somewhere else, then it's a good thing." |
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