Forestry Memories Image Library = Fort Augustus Plantation

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	Heritage North
	1938

Fort Augustus Plantation

On the left hand side, top, is Inverwick Forest with Inchnacardoch below it. The large yellow sections show the Birch while the smaller striped section represents the conifer. The Oak is coloured pink and is hardly visible. The line under the top yellow section is the upperplanting limit. There were just a few vacant areas. Also drawn in the map are Coille Bharaiddh, Creag o Beathe, Coille o na Feinn, Druim na Garbh...River Moriston and Loch Ness
Picture Added on 15 February 2007.

Comments

The map is no other that FC North Scotland Acquisition No1 'Port Clair'. Purchased from J M Grant of Invermoriston. The woodland is mostly semi-natural birch and oak and is what was sold to FC then mostly cleared to plant the forest which now exists there, including some of the best Douglas fir in the UK. No exaggeration, Port Clair p1927 DF is famous and we may find some more photo's where it is being felled for ships masts.
Added by Thanks to Malcolm Wield on 05 June 2007.

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