The Scots Pine
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- I was delighted to be asked to voice this short film about The Scots Pine, Scotland's National Tree for The Forestry Commission.
Don't Scotland's forests look glorious? I'm so lucky to have this on my doorstep!
My mums an Anglo Scottish and I love to have some brilliant scots pine planted in India’s Mussoorie town in foothills of Himalaya a piece of Scotland here
What a beautiful treebute to a beautiful tree!
good wee vid. cant beleive it does not have more comments. i just got a scots pine for my garden. i hope it does well, i love pines, have a few xmas trees in garden, love them.
I will gladly comment. : )
This was actually quite an amazing video, really good stuff, thanks.
Excellent film! Love the voice and photography.
Fantastic video
I havnt seen a red squirrel in central scotland in 20 years or so. Those grey bastards took over
If you think grey squirrels are bad, just wait to see what damage beaver do to the forest! I live in the U.S. and own a pine plantation. Beaver are devastating. Those beaver your government wanted to bring in (and or protect) will make tree lovers cry.
@@tmo4330 because closed canopy forests are not really a thing in britain. A lot of our land would have been wetlands, open scrubland and light canopy forests apart from maybe a few dense beech forests in the far south. The english oak which is Britain's most common tree dominates the landscape and it requires a lot of light to sprawl out and live for hundreds of years. Pines are mostly extinct in everywhere but a few parts of Scotland and I personally think that's because we wiped out all of the creatures that cut down trees so the pines were outcompeted my deciduous trees. Intensive farming of sheep wouldnt have helped either as no trees would be able to bounce back. Beavers are classed as a keystone species, this is because most of the trees they cut down are bankside trees such as willows which will naturally regrow (google coppicing, its a similar process.) They would also boost the numbers of fish by creating small ponds so the river holds more water as well as boosting the insect population so the fish have more to eat. We have a huge problem with flooding in britain as our rivers have been historically straightened. This causes more waterways to dry up during the summer meaning we have to ration water and flood during the winter. Britain is a very wet place full of bogs and rivers, beavers belong here and we're historically very common
@@jackcocker545 There are ways to save trees that you do not want the beaver to eat. Hoop them off with 36 inch (I don't know metric) high welded wire fence. You can also paint the bark of desirable trees with paint that has sand added to it. Beaver hate the gritty texture of sand. They do not prefer thin tough barked trees. Their favorite food is soft trees like pine and poplars. Dad and I have trapped/hunted/killed more than 325 beaver on our property alone. The damage they inflict has cost us 10's of thousands of dollars. I wish they would have been trapped into extinction in the U.S. You can raise hardwood trees and have beaver around but the problem is that it takes 60 years to grow a nice hardwood saw log and it takes 20 years to grow pine saw timber. That is why we plant loblolly pine. It will also be very costly for you to keep culverts and road drainage pipes un stopped as the beaver will clog them up. Beaver will help your flooding problem but in my opinion I think they will add to your drying up problem because their ponds will trap water instead of letting the water seepage flow to the rivers.
Can I buy seeds of that Scott's pine ma'am? I want to grow it here in the philippines
You can get them online but I would reccomend planting native trees. Why ship seeds from a foreign land to invade your area when the Philippines has native pines?