collbradán

@collbradan

ecologist: Ireland, Scotland and NE Atlantic 🌳🦞 fascinated by our living world, working to document, protect and restore it 🏳️‍🌈

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Vrijeme pridruživanja: travanj 2017.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    27. kol 2019.

    in Ireland, the extinction crisis is green: 1) green fields are sterile and simple. each was created through the destruction of a complex wood, bog or meadow that came before. their simplicity is maintained with herbicide and by overloading the soil with nitrates and phosphates

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    the root system of a scots pine (Pinus sylvestris)

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    1. velj

    Where some see a disgracefully mucky car, I see a blank canvas...

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    moral of this story: nature can't recover in Scotland until browsing pressure is reduced. pics of seedlings stunted by deer👇 (5/5)

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    the reason why these trees are confined to the ravine is because sheep or deer mouths couldn't reach them there when they were young. today only deer are present- their sustained browsing is the one thing preventing these relicts from slowly reclaiming their territory (4/5)

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    somewhat miraculously, pine has survived along one of the area's many ravines- but only just. i found 2 mature trees amongst 10s of stumps. this also means that the mature population is 2 landslips away from oblivion (3/5)

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    what happened to those woods isn't documented (or is it?), but they were likely felled for timber in the 17th or 18th centuries (their sea loch-side location would have allowed for fairly easy transport by boat). too many sheep, deer or fires then prevented regrowth (2/5)

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    this average looking highland glen was clothed in pinewood when 16th century map maker Timothy Pont passed by. he actually described 'Many Fyrre [pine] Woods' along the 8km stretch between Glen Coe and Kinlochleven (1/5)

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    This is Sioned Jones. This Bantry resident is up in court for causing damage to a sitka spruce plantation near her house. Over the last 14 years, she has quietly replaced the conifers with native broad leaf trees.

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    31. sij

    Unusually low water levels at the Gearagh give a sense of the braided channels that ran through this once extensive alluvial woodland, where just stumps remain

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    31. sij

    Last yr a beautiful grassland near me became a building site.I knew there were Early purple orchids there and they would be lost forever. I approached the owner and asked if I could rescue the remaining orchids which hadn't been buried. Today I found the rosettes in my gdn!

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  12. 31. sij

    referring to a wide range of habitats as 'Britain's rainforest' is one of my pet peeves- we already have temperate rainforests. stop ignoring them and start restoring them pls 😬

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  13. 31. sij

    restoring healthy blanket bog is essential, but worth pointing out that *actual temperate rainforest* would grow on many of Britain's shallow peats if given half a chance

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    29. sij

    Environmental groups welcome Deer Working Group report as a potential catalyst to bring deer management into the 2020s

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    28. sij

    The first to establish have a tough time of it but, if they succeed, they can make things a lot easier for others. A medium density of trees has been shown to reduce windspeed to 20% of its original force at distances up to 5 times the height of the trees. 1/

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    27. sij

    “Depending on what form the carbon tax takes, we will react to it"

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  17. 26. sij

    how some of Beinn Eighe's ancient pines are still alive is a mystery to me: battered by gales, growing from infertile rock andddd this one's doing it with only half its bark 🤷

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    26. sij

    Great day yesterday exploring a hidden Exmoor valley for bryophytes with . A little steep in places!

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  19. 26. sij

    nice to see creeping lady's tresses - a pinewood orchid - growing on deadwood over this ravine! not its usual habitat

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  20. 26. sij

    the kinds of lichens present suggest this woodland is v old, and historical maps reveal that the area has been wooded since the 1500s. the oldest map even says there was a 'Fyrrwood [pinewood] heir', yet today's isn't officially recognised on the Caledonian Pinewood Inventory

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  21. 26. sij

    gorgeous ancient woodland along a section of the Findhorn River: aspen and hazel plastered in leafy lichens, gnarly old pines, decent amounts of deadwood and lush ground vegetation. this place will be buzzing in spring

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