All Is White?

Winter has come early to the North East and tree branches are heavy with snow.

However a splash of colour in this white landscape.....

.....with this young oak which still retains some green leaves.

PAWS Surveying in Argyll

We're working with Woodland Trust to get a Plantation on Ancient Woodland Sites (PAWS) restoration project underway in Argyll. The first stage is to talk to the woodland owners and managers about PAWS so that we can work out what is possible. Looking at woods is important too, and this picture shows an oak tree picked out on a visit. The sitka spruce behind the tree is crowding the oak, but the biggest threat is the young spruce that is growing up through the canopy of the oak: this young growth will be bad news for the middle aged oak.

PAWS for thought....

Much discussion was had amongst foresters and landowners at a recent event organised by Scottish Native Woods and the Woodland Trust on the restoration of PAWS (Plantations on Ancient Woodland Sites).

Commencing a more gradual transformation of the site by thinning the conifers will allow native plants in the ground flora to develop as well as remnant old oaks to breathe again.