Barracks section of Rannoch Forest
Photograph courtesy of Duncan Menzies, Banchory.
A view over the ploughed landscape at Rannoch Forest looking towards the Glencoe Hills. It is very easy to see the effects of glaciation where the retreating ice has dumped piles of rock and debris in mounds over the landscape. These conditions make it difficult to create a forest as the ground varied from wet deep peat between the mounds and steep rocky and boulder slopes which were drier but difficult to plough and drain. Patchy cultivation resulted in lower tree stocking unless a great deal of hand work was used to fill in all the gaps and drain the hollows.
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When I was a kid on school holidays in the early 70's I used to visit this area with my dad delivering pay packets to the Commission employees working out that way. I also still remember the radio calls in the van during fire watch season, "alpha cragfire one to alpha cragfire two!".
Comment left on 14 May 2014 at 12:41 by Ewan Elger
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