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across the Scottish Highlands, Ancient Woods are falling apart following centuries of heavy browsing pressure. this thread provides a case study, and tries to make sense of why this ecological and cultural crisis is still widely ignored #wildtrees 
our case study area is ~60km2 of open mountain and glen near Fort William. deer stalking is the main land use, and sheep are grazed in the southern glen (Glen Loy). no one lives here, and the area appears to be almost completely devoid of tree cover from above
this wasn't the case just a few generations ago: in the 1870s there was over 200Ha of woodland (green blocks) along with thousands of scattered trees (green dots)
