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Cheviot
Trees win contract grow for new expansive Forestry Commission native woodland
planting around
Loch
Katrine
 Cheviot
Trees have successfully secured the contract to grow 600,000 native
trees and shrubs for the Forestry Commission’s high profile woodland
establishment project in central
Scotland. Planting over a three year period, with a possible requirement to
supply additional planting stock over a further two years, the project
will see the establishment of almost 8500 hectares. It will be the
largest, predominantly broadleaved, new woodland planting seen in
Scotland
since the Middle Ages.
An extensive area of
woodland will begin to take shape across the heart of Loch Lomond &
The Trossachs National Park.
This vision follows the lease by Scottish Water of its 9600-hectare
property around Loch Katrine and Loch Arklet to Forestry Commission
Scotland.
The
Forestry Commission has ambitious plans to restore thousands of hectares
of natural habitat around the loch over the next 10 to 20 years.
This
project, when added to neighbouring properties, where native woodland is
also being restored, will create
Scotland
’s largest continuous native woodland habitat.
The
woodland at Loch Katrine will consist predominantly of Birch and Scots
pine, with Oak on the lower slopes near the
Loch
. A mix of hazel, rowan, alder, willow, juniper, ash, bird cherry and
aspen, along with a small range of woody shrub species will create an
attractive landscape, and will blend upwards to merge with the harsher
environment of the higher slopes.
Cheviot
Trees are specialists in the supply of ‘provenance specific’
planting stock, and the Loch Katrine project is another example of how
forward planning, working with the customer and contract growing
provides genuine Best Value for everybody.
Using
cell grown trees allows flexibility of planning, to fit site
requirements and labour profiles. It enables easy programming of
planting, without the need for cold-storage and without being vulnerable
to adverse planting conditions. Cell grown trees are the way forward
today, with impending climate change, and increasingly dry, hostile
planting conditions becoming the norm.
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