Inventory Topic Area: LAND USE - FARMING, FORESTRY COUNTRY SPORTS AND ESTATES
Subject: LOSS OF NATIVE WOODLANDS
Management issues:
The Nature Conservancy Council estimated that between 36% and 45% of the Ancient and Semi-natural Woodland in (the former) Strathclyde and Central Regions has been lost since 1945 and the most south westerly remnant of Caledonian Pinewood in Scotland at Glen Falloch is so badly degraded that it has been monitored since 1957, not for a decline in area, but in the number of trees surviving. Developments in 1993 to encourage the regeneration of the native pinewood at Glen Falloch provided new hope and a positive example of what can be done with cooperation between government bodies and private individuals. Areas covered by the Woodland Grant Scheme are well protected, and other areas of felling (including the need for replanting) are controlled by the Forestry Commission's Felling Licence procedure, but casual felling below the minimum level for licences, development pressures, and, most significantly, grazing pressure all take their toll. Some farmers are driven by economic necessity to use their woodlands for short term benefits of shelter and grazing, to the long term detriment of the resource.
Key words: Land cover; Woodland; Agriculture and farming; Forestry; Grants and support schemes
Location: Loch Lomond and Trossachs Area
Principle organisations: Argyll & Bute Council - Planning, Development & Tourism
Scottish Natural Heritage - Information & Library Service
Scottish Natural Heritage - MSSA
Local contacts: Forest Enterprise
Information:
Argyll Forest Park, Forestry Commission Guide
Bothy Loch Lomond Woodland Grant Scheme
Breeding Bird Community of Glen Falloch
Breeding Bird Community of Inchmoan
Breeding Bird Community of the Aber Bogs, Loch Lom
Breeding Bird Community on Crom Mhin
Central Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group Grants Information
Farm Diversification and Planning Permission by the Scottish Office
Farm Diversification in Scotland
Forest District Conservation Plan
Inventory of Ancient, Long-established and Semi-natural Woodland
Local Features of Wildlife Value
Loch Lomond Local (Subject) Plan (Adopted 1986)
Loch Lomond Woodland Survey - General Report and Target Notes 1992
Loch Lomond Woodland Survey - General Report and Target Notes 1993
Management of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs
Management Plan for Meall Na Samthna SSSI
Management Plan for Cariagrostan Woods SSSI
Management Plan for Pollochro Woods SSSI
Mountain Areas of Scotland - Conservation and Management
Regeneration of Native Pinewoods: A Case Study of Two Remnants in SW Highland
Regeneration of Upland Woodland Communities, Ben More/ Stob Binnein
Social Economic Evaluation of the Capital Grant Element of the Farm Diversification Scheme
Some Notes on the Deer Population of Inchcailloch
Success with Farm Diversification: A Step by Step Guide
Survey of the Bryophytes and Lichens of Pollochro Woods
Survey of Woods in Central Region, Scotland
Sustainable Management: A Survey of Open Ground Retained in Woodland Grant Schemes
Survey of Ancient Woodlands in Stirling District
To Enhance Natural Regeneration of Woodlands
Undesignated Sites of Nature/Landscape Conservation
Vegetation Survey of Ben Lomond
Woodland Grant Scheme - Strathclyde
Related key management issues:
Heritage Conservation: Land management; Wildlife management
Tourism: Impact of tourism on conservation; Impact of tourism on landscape and amenity
Recreation: Landscape and conservation considerations
The Water Resource: None
Land Use - FFCSE: None
Access into the Countryside: Impact on the natural heritage; Land management
Planning & Economic Development: Tensions between conservation and development objectives
Administration and Finance: None
Associated subject headings:
Physical Characteristics: Physical Characteristics
Heritage Conservation: Heritage Conservation
Tourism: Tourist Accommodation; Tourist facilities
Recreation: Recreation facilities; Recreation management; Walking
The Water Resource: Water quality; Surveys
Land Use - FFCSE: Agriculture and farming; Estate management; Forestry; Land management; Land use
Access into the Countryside: Access to land
Planning & Economic Development: Fish farms; Grants; Housing; Legislation; Acts; Codes of conduct/guidance; Mineral extraction; Planning; Schemes
Administration and Finance: Administrative framework; Administrative areas; Management; Partnerships; Policy; Zoning
Gazetteer: Geographic areas