I know that self seeded woodland is better. But there's me in 1988 and the same spot in 2023 after my mum planted all the trees in 1994.
Birds, bat's, ferns, mosses etc just appeared and its infinitely better than a field. And it's inspiring too 😊💚💚
In 2017, I started studying THAMES WATER because I was looking for a British version of VW's "DIESELGATE" and suspected that the discharge of billions of litres of raw SEWAGE into our rivers was a symptom of financial distress and perhaps fraud. Little did I know...
Here's an article to warm you up on a cold day - Burn Marks, looking at tear-shaped scorches on the walls of historic buildings. Once thought to be accidental candle burns but now widely interpreted as apotropaic... and with a curious seasonal link.
https://t.co/BIdqrpb82B
Thérèse Coffey just told a lunch for the British Association of Shooting and Conservation “I’m frankly fed up with the right to roam campaign. The only things that have rights to roam are farmers, their pigs and cattle.”
📢There's a brand new record for Britain's highest altitude tree! We found it at 1221m on Ben Nevis, & incredibly it's a #Willow (Grey Willow; Salix cinerea).
This tenacious little plant has surpassed Sitka Spruce at 1210m. #HighMountainTrees@BSBIbotany@JimMcIn37952395
I surveyed the Flodden Tree in the Scottish Borders this morning for the @woodlandtrust Heritage Trees revisited project. A massive old sycamore with a girth of 6.9m.
#livinglegends#thicktrunktuesday
What might Scotland’s hills look like with more montane woodland? A walk up the Allt Carn a’ Mhaim, which you’d be forgiven for thinking wasn’t the most exciting place for montane woodland establishment, might have some answers… (TL;DR - it's complicated but cool!) (1/10)
The ecological impact of wolf reintroduction to Britain. A wolf ecologist’s view🧵.
Wolf reintroduction to Britain is again a hot topic in the media. So I want to share what we know about the wolf’s ecological impacts in a model European system, Białowieża Primeval Forest.
We're never going to pay for a blue tick
We're never going to promote our posts
We're never going to spam anyone who doesn't want to be spammed by brochs
but damn it, we will continue to post about brochs
And we'd appreciate a wee RT to help people learn all about the CBP :)
Last week I was in Glen Affric for a filming project & we visited the site of Trees for Life's first fencing project, which protected an estimated 100,000 Scots pine seedlings from browsing by red deer in 1990. These photos show the same scene in September 1989 & last week.