My latest essay A
Landscape Lost was
published in May 2020 in
the Geopoetics Journal
Stravaig 8, Part 2
This summarises my
views on how we are
treating (losing) the
Highland landscape
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ECOLOGY Landscape Ecology New Paradigm Peat Bogs Landscape Landscape Issues Climate Change & Land Use
A Future for Moorland was written for The Scottish
Gamekeepers Association, whose members are
concerned about the lack of prominence given to
moorland in most policy documents.
This document does not discuss the management of
moorland. Instead it identifies the importance of
moorland as a habitat type but notes that there is no
strategic guidance on which areas of Scotland should
continue to be retained as moorland. Maps are given
identifying the location of all remaining moorland in
Scotland, together with suggested core areas which
should be retained as such.
How wildness is lost
250 years of encroachment into the Scottish hills
An illustrated non-judgemental overview
An extract from Wild Land News 94, the newsletter of the Scottish Wild Land Group
A5 landscape. Download here .pdf 4.9mb January 2019
A Vision for the Uplands
A landscape perspective on The Highlands. A4, 13 pages.
August 2016.
My response to the SNH scoping of an Upland Vision
Is rewilding destroying the remaining naturalness of
the Scottish Highlands?
Download .pdf here 780kb
Paper presented to the Wild Thing? Conference,
Sheffield, September 2015
Protected Areas for Nature – Review: Report to
Scottish Natural Heritage
Thoughts and Comments from Dr James Fenton.
February 2015.
LANDSCAPE ISSUES IN SCOTLAND