The Forest of Auchnacarry

Abstract

THE letter in NATURE of June I would come as a shock to foresters throughout the world. It states that the Scotch pines at Auchnacarry are perhaps the largest and finest fragment that is left to us of the primæval Caledonian forest. In area about 1500 acres, the forest contains trees 200 to 300 years old of huge size, up to 6 feet in diameter. The scenery of the forest is of great beauty, and, save for a few isolated clumps, is all that we know to remain of the great forest of Scotch pine that once spread over all suitable ground in central Scotland. The writer also remarks that nothing is left so noble, so extensive, so worthy of preservation as this doomed forest of Lochiel's at Auchnacarry.