Wild Trees

​The Knoydart Foundation deer management team and our team have spent a fascinating and inspiring couple of days with James Rainey from Trees For Life learning about the Wild Trees Survey method and thinking about how we might use it here.
Below is the 1st OS map of Knoydart dating back to the 1870s – James has added the pink and green dots to mark where there were trees and woodland back then.
Identifying these places helps locate areas of rich biodiversity and surveying them helps inform how to look after and expand them to increase the biodiversity and ecological productivity of the land.
Over the past 25 years we have protected many of these areas to stop these trees and biodiversity being lost, we are now looking at ways to use the survey method to guide future management and to demonstrate the difference the community's management is making

​Supported by funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund