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Conservation volunteer with tree guard, Flanders Moss
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Stirlingshire - Flanders Moss
A conservation volunteer finishing construction of a tree guard created from coppiced Alder at the Flanders Moss car park, taken by Polly Phillpot.
20 October 2021
Alder and coppiced Alder with tree guard, Flanders Moss
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Stirlingshire - Flanders Moss
Alder (Alnus glutinosa) trees, with a tree guard protecting a coppiced Alder from deer grazing, constructed by Nature Scot staff and conservation volunteers, Flanders Moss National Nature Reserve
20 October 2021
Chalara (Ash Dieback) lesion on an Ash tree twig, Blawhorn Moss NNR
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West Lothian - Blawhorn Moss
The brown lesion along an Ash twig is one of the earliest signs of Chalara or Ash Dieback (Hymenoscyphus fraxineus), a fungal disease of Ash trees which is likely to eventually to kill the tree, taken by David Palmar
Volunteer James, ecologist with Natural Power, removing invasive Silver Birch (Betula pendula) with a tree popper on Lenzie Moss, as part of Butterfly Conservation Scotland's bog squad. Removing trees helps to keep the bog wet and encourages the growth of sphagnum and other peat-forming mosses. Peat is many times more effective than trees at sequestering carbon from the atmosphere, thus helping to combat climate change.
03 September 2017
Flanders Moss with scrub, looking west to Ben Lomond
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Stirlingshire - Flanders Moss
Pine and birch trees encroaching on the bog, Flanders Moss National Nature Reserve, looking west towards Ben Lomond
14 January 2017
Flanders Moss with scrub, looking west to Ben Lomond
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Stirlingshire - Flanders Moss
Pine and birch trees encroaching on the bog, Flanders Moss National Nature Reserve, looking west towards Ben Lomond
14 January 2017
Flanders Moss looking north, with scrub encroachment
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Stirlingshire - Flanders Moss
Pine and birch trees encroaching on the bog, Flanders Moss National Nature Reserve.
14 January 2017
Flanders Moss looking east
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Stirlingshire - Flanders Moss
Flanders Moss National Nature Reserve surrounded by birch trees, looking east towards the Ochils
14 January 2017
Tree tubes removed from tree trunks, Blawhorn Moss NNR
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West Lothian - Blawhorn Moss
Conservation task at Blawhorn Moss NNR - tree tubes removed from tree trunks, taken by David Palmar
15 September 2021
Tree tubes removed from tree trunks, Blawhorn Moss NNR
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West Lothian - Blawhorn Moss
Conservation task at Blawhorn Moss NNR - tree tubes removed from tree trunks, taken by David Palmar