Will be picking out skelfs from my fingers for weeks.
Substantial gorse clearing at Hillend around a nice rowan and a hawthorn gave enough space for 10 more trees - silver birch, rowan and an oak. 19th and 22nd October.
Will be picking out skelfs from my fingers for weeks.
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Carrifran Valley’s Survivor Tree has been crowned Scotland’s Tree of the Year.
A once bare valley is now full of native trees. Started a new batch of trees on the north side - all the heavy work with the pickaxe done by Allan - many thanks!
Mainly rowan and silver birch, that have been grown at the allotment for 4 or 5 years, so they have good root systems and should be big enough to compete with the long grass and fireweed! They all got a wee drink to start them off. All other trees looking sturdy and healthy. One of the best things about an otherwise sucky year has been the opportunity to continue to follow the landscape-scale woodland restoration underway at Mar Lodge Estate. Yesterday I took a walk through Clais Fhearnaig, a ten-mile route in which the walker is rarely (if ever) more than 50 metres away from a regenerating tree. It’s a walk that always leaves me smiling, and always gobsmacked at year-on-year growth rates of the regenerating trees. Here are some annotated pics of what this landscape-scale regeneration looks like.
At Mar Lodge, National Trust for Scotland have been naturally regenerating semi-natural Caledonian woodland and native plantations, alongside providing Highland sport (deer stalking and low intensity walked-up grouse shooting) and open access for all. This has been done largely through reducing deer numbers across large parts of the estate. If you have an interest in what low-herbivore density woodland landscapes look like, and how quickly woodlands can change in response to changing herbivore levels, I would thoroughly recommend a visit! More info here: Mar Lodge Estate: https://www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/mar-lodge-estate Rewilding Scotland Andy Painting: https://www.facebook.com/groups/341529316038631/user/1441522616/ S.J. Rao / Conservation Evidence (2017) 14, 22-26. 22. ‘Effect of reducing red deer Cervus elaphus density on browsing impact and growth of Scots pine Pinus sylvestris seedlings in semi-natural woodland in the Cairngorms, UK’. conservationevidence.com/individual-study/6153 https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/cairngorms/clais-fhearnaig.shtml In prehistory, the druids were protectors of the oaks. “Druid” is a Celtic word formed from dru, meaning “oak”, and wid, “to see or know”. The druids had “oak knowledge”.
80% of Scotland’s environmental protections come from the EU, but as of 1 January 2021, they’ll no longer apply.
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