Hydro pipe and commercial forestry plantations north of Loch Tay The editor of Wild Land News, James Fenton, has written an excellent article about how wildness has been lost from the Highland landscape over the centuries. He focuses on wild, uncultivated land, not the settlements and the land around where signs of human impact would always have been high.
He considers the impacts of: peat cutting, roads and railways, fencing, Victorian and later shooting estates, forestry plantations, the original and more recent hydro-electric schemes, agricultural improvement, footpaths and ATV routes, hill tracks, pylons and associated infrastructure, downhill ski developments, wind farms, and other small-scale structures.
You can download a copy of the article here.
He considers the impacts of: peat cutting, roads and railways, fencing, Victorian and later shooting estates, forestry plantations, the original and more recent hydro-electric schemes, agricultural improvement, footpaths and ATV routes, hill tracks, pylons and associated infrastructure, downhill ski developments, wind farms, and other small-scale structures.
You can download a copy of the article here.
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