Dornoch Forest — Camore and Harriet Woods
Maps courtesy of North Highland Forest District, Golspie.
One of a series of recently found planting maps for the Dornoch area shows the Woods of Camore and Harriets Woods only. There is a yellow bounded area near what was to become the future Forest Nursery which usually indicates purchase by the FC. This particular map has been hand drawn from the standard OS map but excludes all the incidental data and allows FC information to be added more clearly.
This version of the map is possibly one of the oldest found and is unusual in that someone has attempted to show the show the various tree species by using coloured hatchings and symbols rather than the usual lettering.
The Camore Wood compartments run from No1 to 17 and planted in years 1928-9 thereafter the planting moved to Harriet’s Wood with compartments 18-37 planted 1930-32. Note the details of the fire of 2 May 1938 which burnt 36 acres and was replanted in 1939(RP 1939).
The sequence of early planting moved to Harriet Wood with compartments 18-37 planted in 1930-32.
The tree species choice tends towards Scots pine (SP) but there are many small areas of Lodgepole pine, Sitka and Norway spruce, European, Japanese and Hybrid larch, Douglas fir, even some Thuya plicata (Western Red Cedar). There is a little hand note indication Pinus ponderosa planted in Camore.
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Groups: Caithness and Sutherland, Maps of Forest and Woodland Areas