I’m working on something of my own at the moment, but this seems important enough to fill a space on my blog in the meantime. Planting trees is important, but when this is happening at the beck and call of rich foreign investors, then we need to stop and think. That’s what Patrick Laurie is calling for in this post on his own blog Bog Myrtle and Peat.
I’ve often felt uneasy about the expansion of forestry in Galloway. When I’ve written to explore that sense of unease, readers have agreed; the massive increase of commercial woodland is worrying, and in recent weeks, I’ve heard from people in Scotland and Wales who sympathise with Galloway’s plight. These people share the fears I have and the see signs of the same in their own places, but I have to stand back from these anxieties to see my own landscape in context.
What’s happening now in Galloway is not the same forest expansion that threatens to alter the balance of Wales or Perthshire. We’re in a different league of enormity here, and I don’t lay claim to more than my share of suffering without qualification. Since 2016, we’ve seen almost 14,000Ha of new softwood planting here. That’s double the amount of softwood planted in the rest…
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Carruchan 
Hmmm. I wasn't really aware of the magnitude of this issue.I do remember going for a walk near Braemar a few years ago, and a local forestry worker (I think, but it might just have been an information panel) explaining why it was a good thing to replant trees in the area. It seemed to make sense at the time. Oh well, the Russian's are reversing the trend on the Ukrainian border to make room for tank parks or whatever…Anyway, there's a small mistake in the text: you have "the see" instead of "see the"…Keep up the good work.All the bestAlan WordPress.comenvoyé : 23 février 2022 à 17:29de : Carruchan <comment-reply@wordpress.com>à : fell.alan@wanadoo.frobjet : [New post] Expansion Reduction Stephen Shellard posted: "I'm working on something of my own at the moment, but this seems important enough to fill a space on my blog in the meantime. Planting trees is important, but when this is happening at the beck and call of rich foreign investors, then we need to stop and"