Ah, you might be best sticking to the traditional waxed jacket! I spent my time surveying, so only pretend forestry work.

That's a great pic of the dugs.

I've had a Cascada jacket for about 15 years, working in woodlands. It's full of little holes in the outer fabric from brambles but still waterproof. Also same trousers, shredded, and repaired with sail tape. Still do the job.

Good point. Toffee apples play havoc with the teeth.

I do mostly agree with you, Scotland is into 3rd rotation Sitka plantation still using clearfell. It's crap & dangerous but £ talks. Forestry needs to be, can be much better, but we need to produce timber. Please stop denigrating the entire industry when there are many of us who do actually care.

Carving a tumshie lantern, that alone deserves a toffee apple from yer first stop oot guysing.

Hardly trying to "rubbish your point." Simply pointing out that the two examples are vastly different because the management policy is different. Yours is not the only option. Neither is Sitka plantation. But both have a place, each with their inherent weakness.

The obvious point is if you want to manage land purely for nature, then @irishrainforest.bsky.social pic is a good example. If ur objective is to maximise timber production or wheat or turf for golf, it will look significantly different. Depends on objectives. None has exclusivity.

The same can be said for the images below. Both are grassland.

These are all taken in managed conifer plantation. Perhaps we should fell it all and allow it to "rewild"? I admire many rewilding initiatives. I also hate unthinned 1st rotation Sitka. But we need timber, and gotta start somewhere.

4 points seems very generous to the World No 1 who was staring an unenviable record in the face. He beat his nearest rival in singles. Apart from that he was sh1te. But the USA gave us a competition today, and that made this Ryder Cup.

Well said. I know what they mean by "nature depleted conifer" but it's no different from "nature depleted - towns, villages, farms, grouse moors,broadleaved plantations, or Woodland Trust Offices. Get a grip WT.

Big sporting estates certainly. Clearance for agriculture and intensive grazing/burning is why Scotland (and Ire) have never recovered our natural forests.

Complicated but I'd add, population density (of UK) higher than most Eur countries historically = greater demand. Also island nations very heavily dependent on timber for ships. And, mountainous areas of Eur used forests as protection from avalanche, so never cleared hillsides.

I worked on this project ensuring that the surrounding trees and woodlands were protected. My father taught in the old Curriehill School before moving to Currie High on its opening. He taught there for 50 years mainstream and nightschool. He's excited to see the new building!