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	Norman Davidson
	1965

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.

Picture Added on 16 November 2010.

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