Most of the land is privately owned, Bob. It’s not public land, to the best of
my knowledge. It’s a situation that might change as individual ownership of
such large tracts of land is probably insupportable, but that’s as it stands at
the moment.
Chris
On 26 May 2014, at 15:53, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Chris touched on this, but I was surprised to learn that most of the
> forestland you see in Scotland is plantation, i.e., tree farms for product
> rather than naturally occurring forest. Joan and I wondered as we drove those
> first few days at the incredibly straight lines separating forested slopes
> from fields. Now we know. <g>
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