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"An ambitious plan to plant at least a million native trees on crofts in the
Outer Hebrides has taken root, its organisers say, with more than 200 small new
woods sprouting across the islands.
The Western Isles woodland project hopes to reestablish a thriving mosaic of
small woods dotted across the islands by using vacant or underused crofts to
reforest the Hebrides and promote nature restoration.
Under the project, funded mainly by profits from the UK’s largest
community-owned windfarm, west of Stornoway, 211,000 trees have already been
planted on 245 crofts, plots of land that were historically family-run small
holdings.
Some of the new woodlands have up to 1,500 trees grown from local seeds,
featuring alder, hazel, birch, rowan, Scots pine, blackthorn, sycamore and
various species of willow. The project has been so successful it has helped
establish three new tree nurseries on the islands.
Many of the saplings come from seeds sourced by Hebridean Tree Ark, which
harvests them from native local trees found clinging to cliffs and islands
inaccessible to the red deer and sheep that suppress natural regeneration on
land."
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