Abernethy Pinewood Forest 2

by Joan-Violet Stretch

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Abernethy Pinewood Forest 2

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Joan-Violet Stretch

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Photograph - Photography

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Another shot of the lovely Abernethy mainly Caledonian pine with other pinewood forest in the Spey Valley between the Cairngorms and the rivers Spey and Nethy as I walked along this sunny pathway through the forest...its best to keep to the designated paths as when wandering off them could cause you to get very lost here as its a vast forest that goes on for miles at the foot of the Cairngorm mountains valleys.
For those that are interested notes from the forestry commission I picked up:
One of the largest areas of native pinewood in Britain, Abernethy Forest represents part of a once continuous tract of woodland around the lower slopes of the Cairngorms. It is part of the eastern group of pinewood types which includes Glen Tanar, Rothiemurchus and Ballochbuie. Many plants and animals that are found only in the native pinewoods occur here and as such the site is of considerable national importance.
Parts of Abernethy consist of almost completely undisturbed high forest but much of the northern area is semi-natural, some having been planted since the mid- eighteenth century. The forest retains a high degree of naturalness and a good structural diversity in terms of varying age, height and form of trees and in the presence of a shrub layer of juniper and areas of bog woodland. Certain sections of the wood are partly or completely dominated by native broadleaf tree species, especially birch.

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November 8th, 2015

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