Alan Watson Featherstone

ECOLOGIST, NATURE PHOTOGRAPHER AND INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER
FOUNDER OF THE AWARD-WINNING CHARITY TREES FOR LIFE

Glen Cannich

Two days on the Treelay, Part 1

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Fay Blackburn with the wood sculpture that is serving as the Treelay baton, before setting out on the first leg of the Treelay.

On Saturday 5th May, our sponsored Treelay event began – two weeks of walking and cycling around our Project Area – the 1,000 square miles west of Inverness and Loch Ness where we’re working to restore the Caledonian Forest. The first leg on Saturday, from Dundreggan to the RSPB’s Corrimony Reserve, was walked by Fay Blackburn (long term Trees for Life supporter and volunteer group leader) and Jill Hodge, our Dundreggan Project Coordinator. The second leg, on Sunday, was from Corrimony to Coille Ruigh na Cuileige in Glen Affric – the site of our first significant project in 1990, when we paid for the fencing of 50 hectares (125 acres) of land for natural regeneration of the forest there. It was walked by Fay and Fiona Limbrey, the coordinator of our Millionth Tree events, and three guests on programmes at the Findhorn Foundation. [Read more…] about Two days on the Treelay, Part 1

In the gorge of the River Cannich

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Moss-covered oak tree (Quercus petraea) in the gorge of the River Cannich.

This week-end I decided to go somewhere different to my usual favourite places, so I headed out to Glen Cannich, the next glen to the north of Glen Affric. On the way into the glen the road climbs quite steeply from the village of Cannich, as it heads to the north, and then it drops down again a little and levels out beside the River Cannich, before making a turn to the west into the main part of the glen itself. [Read more…] about In the gorge of the River Cannich