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ROYAL SCOTTISH FORESTRY SOCIETY 108Th ANNUAL EXCURSION Angus and Perth Region Sunday, 21St May - Thursday, 25Th May 2006

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ROYAL SCOTTISH FORESTRY SOCIETY 108Th ANNUAL EXCURSION Angus and Perth Region Sunday, 21St May - Thursday, 25Th May 2006 ROYAL SCOTTISH FORESTRY SOCIETY 108th ANNUAL EXCURSION Angus and Perth Region Sunday, 21st May - Thursday, 25th May 2006 "Modern Trees in an Ancient Landscape” PROGRAMME SUMMARY This year it falls to Angus & Perth Region to host our excursion to Argyll and the Isle of Mull for our sylvan excitement! Sunday 21st May 18:30hrs A welcome gathering in the Loch Nell Arms Hotel, North Connel. (Non residents who wish to dine at the Loch Nell Arms should book with the hotel (Tel: 01631 710 408) Monday 22nd May (see pages 4 - 5) We shall be based at Connel, just five miles north of Oban. Monday, 22nd May will take us to the Atlantic Oakwoods of Glen Creran (Glasdrum National Nature Reserve) and then on to Taynuilt for lunch in the village hall. After our ABM we shall go on to visit the famous Iron Works at Bonawe, from which iron was smelted that made cannons for the ships of the Royal Navy at Trafalgar and the rest of the afternoon will be spent in Glen Nant, where the woodland is managed as a National Nature Reserve by the Forestry Commission. That evening the Society's Annual Dinner will be held in the Drawing Room of the Argyllshire Gathering's premises in Oban. Tuesday 23rd May (see page 6) Our second day, the 23rd May, will be spent on Mull. The visit to Mull was suggested as a contrast to the journey to Arran last year. We shall take the early ferry from Oban to Craignure and take the coast road to Tobermory and then back by Loch Frisa to catch the five-o'clock ferry back to Oban with lunch included along the way. On this circular route we expect to visit a tourist enterprise, fuelled by woodchips from thinnings of the plantations on the island, community woods, and the sea eagles at Loch Frisa, as well as an embarkation point for the export of timber from the island. While at Loch Frisa there will be a presentation on the Forest Strategy for Mull as well as an account of the woodland management that is necessary where there are breeding pairs of sea eagles. Wednesday 24th May (see page 7) On the 24th May, we shall visit a proposed site for woodland grazing project at Craignish, between Oban and Lochgilphead. We hope that the owner of the estate will be able to join us to describe her objectives for her woodland and that we shall hear from her agent and farm tenant as well as the local FWAG adviser and from a Forestry Commission representative. We then lunch at the Kilmartin House Museum. The cafe, constructed of green oak, is in a beautiful extension of Kilmartin House. The museum is itself a fascinating place, within an extraordinarily interesting and beautiful landscape, and well worth the visit. There is a very interesting model of the landscape of the area, showing archaeological monuments, and forestry and other land-uses in relation to the cultural landscape. After lunch we drive down the road to Dunadd, the ancient fort, where the Kingdom of Dalriada was established in ca AD 450. Looking over the Moine Mhor (Great Moss) lies the flood plain of the River Add, which twists through it, past the Crinan Canal to the sea. We expect to be addressed from the summit of the dun by Robin Malcolm of Poltalloch, whose ancestors had so much to do with the development of the 18th and 19th Century landscape of improvement. From Dunadd and the Strath of Kilmartin we shall drive on to Lochgilphead, where Mr Bob McIlwraithh of Alienergy will show us round the woodchip fired boiler that heats a recently built housing estate. We will also see the system that heats the swimming pool. Some members may like to take their swimming trunks with them for a quick dip, rather than dive into the chilly waters of Loch Fyne - Who knows? Thursday 25th May Cashel (see page 9) "Modern Trees in an Ancient Landscape" Provisional Schedule 21st May 18.30 Gathering at the Lochnell Arms, North Connell for a welcome reception 22nd May (see pages 4 - 5) 10.00. Set off by bus for Glasdrum NNR in Glen Creran. 12.00 Stop at Woodland grazing project, part of Achnacloich Estate, the property of Lome Nelson Esq. 12.30 Arrive Taynuilt village hall for ABM and lunch 14.00 Visit Bonawe Iron Works, 15.30 Arrive Glen Nant NNR 16.30 Return to Connel, 19.30 for 20.00 at the Argyllshire Gathering Drawing Room in Oban 23rd May (see page 6) 8.00 Bus will leave hotel for Oban 08.30 Board the ferry for Craignure 08.45 depart 09.30 Arrive Craignure 16.45 Board ferry for Oban at Craignure 17.00 Ferry sails for Oban 24th May (see page 7) 10.00 Arrive Craignish Estate 12.00 Arrive Kilmartin House 14.00 Dunadd 15.30 Lochgilphead 16.30 Farewells until we gather in 2007 for the 109* Spring Excursion 25th May (see page 9) 11.30 Meet at Cashel - Forest for a Thousand years" 10th Anniversary conducted tour NOTES ON THE RSFS EXCURSION TO ARGYLL - 21ST TO 24™ MAY 2006 This year our excursion takes us to the oak woods of Argyll and the island of Mull. Argyll is on the edge, as its name suggests, but the area is central to the history of Scotland. For us as foresters, Argyll has a particular interest in a time of changing priorities in woodland management. The rush to plant large areas of conifers has receded and we are left with decisions to make as to how best to manage what we have. These are difficult times for forestry with poor prices, the decline of the subject at University level, and so forth. Yet forests and woods have never been more important - climate change, biodiversity, the role of forests in soil retention and watershed management, all these are crucial in humanity's care for the Planet. Change brings with it many surprises, of which the current interest in wood fuel, at a time when prices of oil and gas are rising, is an example. In short, forestry is going through a phase of great interest and importance. It is a truism that forestry is a long-term exercise and that we plant and manage woods for which there may not be any profitable sale tens of years from the time of planting, but this should not put us off our task. We need to remember Professor Anderson and plant to suit the site. If we follow the ecological prompts we are less likely to go wrong than if we drive headlong through peat and gravels with huge ploughs simply to plant one species for which there may not be a worthwhile outlet though as the example of wood chips suggests, there may be surprises. Monday 22nd May Glasdrum Our first day begins with a visit to the Glasdrum National Nature Reserve in Appin. The presence there of the Pearl Bordered Fritillary and Chequered Skipper has contributed to the discussion about the management of oak woods - the problems posed by patches and mosaics in woodland ecology. Glasdrum lies on the north shore of Loch Creran, beyond which, to the east, is Glenure - the Glen of the Yew. There is yew in that glen, as its name suggests should be the case, which raises the question of the nativeness of yew in the Highlands of Scotland. Authorities such as Dr. Dickson of Glasgow University, noting the presence of yew on islands in Loch Linnhe, have suggested that yew probably is a native of this country and there is plenty of evidence from the place names to agree with this. On Tuesday we shall land in Mull at Craignure 'the crag of the yew'. Glenure is famous also as the home of the ill-fated Colin Campbell of Glenure, victim of the Appin Murder of 1752 and immortalised in RLStevenson's 'Kidnapped'. Peter Wormell, who needs no introduction as a long-standing member of the Society and a much respected authority on woodland ecology and history, will be our guide for this part of the journey, accompanied by John Halliday of SNH and others. After Glasdrum we shall drive south, cross the bridge at Connell and head for the woods at Ardnaskie, opposite Fearnoch (PCS), where Lorne Nelson has grazed cattle for many years. It is odd to think that the Forestry Commission, which for some years gave farmers money to fence cattle, is now running a project that involves cattle grazing in woodland. Still, the question of how to manage grazing in woodlands is an important one and it is good that new approaches to the subject are being investigated. Bob Black has agreed to speak here, as has Lucy Sumsion of Argyll FWAG. Peter Wormell has pointed out that the area around Oban has more oak woodland than any other part of the British Isles. http://www.caledonian-partnership.org.uk/ao/total%20age%20structure%20report.pdf http://www.nnr-seotland.org.uk/downloads/publications/Glasdrum WoodNNRStorv.pdf http://www.rls. orq.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-000-001-343-L The web site quoted above gives a history of iron manufacture in Britain in a nutshell. It is very interesting to realise that Bonawe is part of the mainstream of industrial history. Dr. Roebuck from Birmingham, the Irish adventurers and so forth, all part of the astonishing developments that led to Great Britain's industrial and imperial supremacy in the nineteenth century.
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