BBC Making Scotland's Landscape 1 of 5 Scotland's Trees 

Absolutely loved this documentary, I am from the Pacific Northwest (Oregon), and the point about that one guy who was obsessed with trees, and especially with the Larch, connected with me lol. I am also obsessed with the larch (our native Western Larch and Alpine Larch), and I have been collecting (buying) native trees and plants native to the Pacific Northwest and planting them at my home. Fun fact: the tallest larch in the world is also native to the Pacific NW, the Western Larch. Our Alpine Larches are by far the most beautiful from around the world though, imo (sidenote there). I also immediately recognized many of our native PNW trees shown in that video, such as the Western Larch, Sitka Spruce, and the Sequoiah. Quite a few others looked familiar as well. So as a PNW native tree and plant nerd, and an environmentalist, forest/nature lover, and avid hiker, I especially enjoyed this documentary.

I used to work in forestry, 30 years ago. wood cutting, forest drainage, sawmill, I even did some planting for a few months.. Scottish Woodlands, Tilhill, Economic Forestry Group ..Lived in Galloway nr Corsock. A lot of investment money went out of that game when the Berlin Wall came down. British wood market flooded with cheaper timber from Eastern Europe .. At times, I used to think about the damage forestry had caused to the landscape ..But also I used to see lots of Black Grouse, Siskins, Crossbills ..It was the damage to all that peat bog I had a hand in, doing the drainage, I was Line Man for a Digger..I still have piece of wood, "Bog Wood", tht came out of a deep peat bog, might be thousands of years old .... But I needed work..I lived out in the sticks surrounded by forestry..They were there before I moved to Scotland .I did not plant them. I liked them but as I have got older I still think about the damage to the ancient pet bog.

"The function of this forest is just not to change." Music to my ears. Wonderful work. Thank-you!

Eight generations back, my grandfather replanted forests in Alsace-Lorraine and was awarded his official last name "Somwald" which means "to the trees" by the king and awarded a family crest with the name. In America where he emigrated, his name became Zumwalt. While many of my lines come from English gentry, it's this grandfather that I feel the most kinship. Some day I hope to find a documentary about the forests of that area. Andreas Zumwalt, one man can make a difference.

We from Quebec went to Scotland last year, specifically for the West Highland Way hike. It was magnificent, both the landscape and the warm people seduced us and we anticipate a next trip to this wonderful country. Before tackling the Rannoch Moor, we stopped to observe the Scottish pines on the shore of Loch Tulla, what a magnificent tree. I imagined the region in Roman times, a country he had named Caledonia because of its forest cover. A magnificent journey which, however, was somewhat clouded as we crossed the 15 kilometers before Ben Nevis, vast territory where a clearcut of the forest had been undertaken, the land completely left fallow, without explanation.

What a beautiful documentary. It makes me want to live forever. To see us humans correct the mistakes of selfishness and shortsightedness. To see us once again live in harmony in nature. Not by denouncing technology, but instead use it to help heal nature and lessen our footprint even as our population increases. We can do this if we put our minds to it. We can do if we overcome those voices among us who willfully ignore the lessons of science and nature. Research into such things as fusion nuclear power as well as continued growth in renewables are just a few examples of how we can accomplish this. The research done in growing meat in the lab might also help us greatly reduce our footprint on nature. If we can grow meat in the lab instead of maintaining huge unsustainable herds of farm animals, we can make a huge difference. Science and nature do not have to be at odds with each other. In fact, nature has informed science and will continue to do so if we allow it to. Many tribal cultures like those in the Americas and those of our ancestors had to preserve nature because their lives depended on it as this documentary illustrated. We can take those lessons and incorporate them into our modern lives as many projects such as the one shown at the end of the video showed. Climate change deniers are the ignorant among us who willfully ignore knowledge in order to feed their greed. Let us ignore them and heal our world and us in the process. I really also like the older gentlemen from the Forestry Commission. He had a very youthful spark in his eyes despite his advanced age. A truly wise man with a child-like curiosity and wonder. Very cool!

Thank you for making such a wonderful documentary on the history of Scotland's forests. Beautiful! ❤

My wife and I stayed at Syd House's place in Almondbank in 2002, our last trip to Scotland. He took us on a personal tour of the grounds pointing out significant specimen trees and generously gifted us his book on David Douglas, namesake of the tree.

This was amazing! I recently inherited a forest that's been in our family for over 200 years. There is a big gap after a storm and I cant wait to get it filled in the proper way!

Wow. that forest of Affric place looked incredible; you don't see too many places like that anymore. People just love tearing shit up, driven by greed, and then leave nothing behind for the future generations, completely selfish in every sense of the word, and very very stupid. You know a real forest when you see one, instead of some dark and dingy conifer plantation where you'd barely find a Dung Beetle nevermind any birds or other animals. The public should be turned onto trees and everyone should plant them, then we can re create the beautiful forests we once had.

Finlay MacRae you are a living legend. Well done for the work you done.

Thanks for uploading these.

bless those tree planters at the end, made me tear up, such a beautiful gift to those yet with us

Funny I used to think of The Bay City Rollers (Eric Faulkner ) when Scotland was mentioned but this documentary is so much more. Thank you for sharing.

Another great example of anything can be interesting if you are curious. Nature is not just supermassive black holes, dark energy, etc as presented by Brian Cox.

..brilliant Documentary,and great work by the guy's at the end there!...Thankyou very much!..

Nowadays, about 12% of Britain's land surface is wooded, In days gone by, much of Scotland was covered in forest. Today only 1% of the land surface still has native woodland, the rest tree farms , sorry scars across the land

Thanks for telling this story so well.

wow amazing series

I have interviewed Rosie the Riveters for a decade. The stories of conserving are very important. It may seek like another topic to ask Rosies what they did to survive during the great depression and during WWiI. But we on this earth need to learn to conserve now. NOw.

Very well done, and highly informative. Could have been improved by incorporating maps. Yes, I stopped the episode numerous times to search for maps, but this should have been done by the director. That said, I really enjoyed the information and scenes.

Really enjoyed this and learned a lot. Well done!

Awesome video and content, learned alot about my home country I didnt know about.

Absolutely tripping balls watching this and I appreciate your love for trees x

I like to see your videos and you. Hi from Hellas .Happy New Year 2020.

bring back wolves, linyxs and baer to UK

Love this video. Never see much about the forests of Caledonia without looking for it.

Could it be that the water table rises due to the tree's disappearing? Tree's hold water, without trees the water table rises. The same has happened here in Western Australia, and the rising water table brought salt up with it... Many of the inland freshwater lakes have turned salty. The rivers are drying up because farmers have used too much of it, so the salt does not flush away anymore. Another thing this video does not take into account is that the deer do not have predators anymore, and so the tree's are not given a chance to grow. Any new tree is grazed the moment it pops above the existing vegetation. Plant trees, fence them off, and introduce predators to keep the deer population down. Then plant more tree's.

Thank you for your beautiful and informative video. Very interesting

Great Story very moving

Such a beautiful forest.Once in it,i may never leave.....

I love the accent, I love the show.

What a wonderful documentary.

Am saving to move to the Highlands with my 3 dogs, it's absolutly gorgeous have wanted to live there since a kid I'm now 20 but am saving using my own self employed business to get me there and also learning to drive

Thank you so full of hope

A great video showing the destruction caused by man and how few realise the importance conservation is needed around the world if we are to survive the future.

beautiful

Millions of chattering locusts have devastated the entire UK landscape, right up to the present day. Very sad.

i wanted to come there to see the beauty of scotland but its hard to get the visa specialy when you are living in the south east asia

I very much enjoyed this video, especially since I've been a member of the National Arbor Foundation in the United States, taking time to plant 10 saplings, of which only 3 have survived..........

Another Pacific Northwest viewer--the pine forest reminds me of Vancouver Island 50 years ago. We must choose to care for our forests:)

Crikey mate, you know how to make a documentary! That was great. In a time of the idiotic, hyperbolus - and very Philistine - American 'melodrama' of an only quasi-documentary, that was truly delightful! Civilised, erudite and elegant, it reminded me of Sir David Attenborough's hey-day. Thank you!

It's nice to see Iain in a jacket that's not blue.

please activate translation on series

I have always wanted to go to the U.K. but will never get to . So these films are the close I will get ......thank you .

Got to Sitka and see millions of acres of the spruce, healthy and a natural forest doing well. Of course, there are very, very few people in Alaska. Could that have anything to do with it?

i love perching in a forest like this

I want to move there and help the trees !

I can only hope that one day the UK FC come around to gain a world view understanding of: mixed species, diverse geoclimatic genotypes within species, fire fuel reduction, and multi use forests. In the PNW in Canada there are 8000 different commercial and environmental preservation genotypes tracked archivally stored and planted, since 1980. In planning for replanting, species mixes are chosen to put back what was there before harvesting or wildfire. Good planting practises also recognize the value of interspersing desiduous trees for reducing (or stopping) wild fire intensity and providing interspecies nitrogen fixing and sharing. The UK FC in the 80s and possibly still, is oblivious to the benefits of random pattern widely spaced planting that would have resulted in higher overall value land use for livestock grazing and recreation. Instead they seem to have grown awful forests that are planted in vertical rows up hills that have resulted in gully erosion and rills that leave the forest unamenable to livestock or even walking. The UK FC also had an amusing paranoia about not allowing sheep or cattle grazing within the forests while the British Columbia Forest service managed grazing in natural forests and used sheep to suppress brush and weeds in extreme high value gene preservation tree orchards. The UK FC also has an bigger problem obtaining native seed from a diverse number of geo-climatic zones and especially elevarions, as the best native genetic stock has in some cases been extirpated as have examples of trees from over 300 m elevation. While in the PNW trees are growing and being replanted at elevations up to 2000m. Many of the PNW seed stocks that were used in the UK were sourced from coastal sea level and have proven inapproppriate for higher sites in the UK. Some species from the PNW have also been planted in inappropriate UK soil conditions where the soil has been overly wet or shallow, resulting in blown over trees or just ugly trees that have failed to thrive. As a young bio silviculture engineer returning from a 1982 visit to my parents old country I was asked to give a 5 minute summary to my Silviculture management group on the state of the UK FC. Summarised; we can learn from the biology research into dormancy and climatic resilieance done at the Bow Street research facility in Wales, but that the British Forestry Commision will never be a commercial competitor and they have a woeful understanding of current silvicuture practice. On later visits in 2012 and later nothing much seemed to have changed. I do hope that this will improve with time for all the 4rth cousins that remain across the UK.

greetings from croatia to beautifool scotland

I think he has a proper and distinguished accent. What do you say?

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They did the same thing in the r o Ireland very good documentary

And now…The Larch IYKYK

Most people seem to admire Scotlands treeless uplands. I've always gazed at them in horror, a testament to many centuries of deforestation and environmental mismanagement.

Makes me proud to be Scottish and live in such a beautiful country 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️

Finlay Macrae... Hero!! ❤

Does anyone know who is the 37:08 minute boy? Im fucking exactly the same. Im freaking out.

I love Scotland, because I am a Robertson descendant, although my ancestors moved to Colonial Virginia in the late 1600’s, as did my English ancestors, mostly from the midland and northern shires. They did payback the brits for Culloden during the American Revolution. They were mostly farmers and jurists and military but the last few generations have become educators and journalists. They seem to have all fulfilled the motto of the Robertson family - service.

Beauty SCOTLAND!

Ciau bello

All that dead wood should be brought down to the earth to decompose and feed the live trees

I want to go to Scotland.

Im waitting Just aliance

Ur expecting PIZZa or something... :D :D :D

Was going to subscribe yet no new videos in 5 years???

I had no idea the entire the planet celebrated Scotland's landscape. Just curious, where are these global celebrations held? Also, why didn't they film this during the Summer? Honestly the forests in Scotland have little diversity and are kind of boring. If Europeans think Scottish forests are amazing, they would be absolutely awe-struck by the forests of the Appalachians or those in the Pacific northwest.

only problem with Scotland are the Miggies and the occasional flying haggis

I love Scotland

0:55 my house is in that picture!

Yet here in my homeland a foreigner rules.

Rewilding

I am the way, The truth and the life; no man cometh unto The Father but by me. John 14;6

I am an Abernethy.

Y sind Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️

Burning the Green Man was Burning Earth, burning man.The burnt man inherited heaven and Earth and the new world was spawned.

Feel bad for the UK as you wiped out your forrests

aiming for 25% is pathetic when other countries are aiming for 60% the SNP at its best

Pines and Junipers ( do not a forest make!!!)

44:10 first time i have ever felt humans deserve to live on this planet.

get on with it

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Sane neat of yours!?

The "green man" is actually *Osiris,* even the name Scotland comes from Scota an Egyptian princess.

My House cametas

Try against Scotland ❤️✍️

bookmark 38:58

The trees died in Scotland 4000 years ago because Saint Greta wasn't there to tell them what to do.

What BS, that guy lives in his condo!

Bealtaine. It's pronounced BAL-TEN-YE, not BEL-TAYN

Be careful Here stuoueds

Forest plantations in Scotland are the ugliest, most monotonous, most unnatural forests I've seen in my whole life. They damage the landscape, the ecosystem and the tourist-industry. And the way you cut your trees down, omg! Go to countries like Norway and learn how to do real sustainable forestry.

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he's a bit of a prat isnt he... smh