Scotland’s forests are the largest they have been for 900 years The share of Scotland that is forested has increased from 6 percent a century ago to around 18 per cent today

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  1. I work in the forestry sector here in Ireland and saw this post on r/WorldNews. Things are complex here but we should learn lessons from Scotland.

  5. Mostly commercial conifers, but they’re being replaced with native trees as the forestry is being logged.

  6. I didn’t realise how deforrested Ireland was until I visited other countries. Irish cities are true concrete jungles. God forbid a tree was growing, the farmers would have it chooped down on the first sprout.

  7. Irish tree cover is probably higher than its been for 400 years or so, however widespread lake and bog drainage means the total wilderness area is likely to be far less

  8. It’s the same in Catalonia. Depopulation of rural areas has led to us having more % of land covered by forests now than we’ve had for the past 2 and a half millennia or so.

  12. A very interesting video on how to restore native forests: [Restoring the ancient Caledonian Forest | Alan Watson-Featherstone | TEDxFindhorn](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDtsExXe93Q)

    I’ve been planting trees on my land above Roundwood with http://www.treesontheland.com and in an area that I cleared of a big swath of gorse, fenced off and planted some trees I was absolutely astounded by the amount of Downy Birch and Rowan that had self seeded in the fenced off area.

  15. A stand of forestry on my way to work has just been cut down and logged. What do they do about the stumps, are they ploughed up and more forestry planted. ??

  18. Honestly devastating that we’ll likely never recover our nature Ash fully due to the Ash dieback brought in from abroad.

  19. Mabye, but a LOT of Scotland is privately owned – vast swathes ‘owned’ by individuals.

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