My experiences managing a woodland in the Scottish Highlands
I can’t complain too much about having to distance myself here at Comar Wood because it’s what I often do much of the time anyway! Life here hasn’t really changed a lot in the last couple of weeks and at least spring seems to be going ahead as normal. I thought for this post I […]
As you may have gathered from the management plan post, the main initial operation in Comar Wood is thinning of the Sitka spruce. I am pleased to say that this is now underway! Progress has been slower than I’d originally hoped because my time has been a bit limited recently. However, I’ve managed to find […]
Over last winter and spring we carried out our first major operation in the woodland – construction of access tracks. We need tracks so that we can get into the wood with a tractor to start gradually removing the Sitka spruce trees. After spending a lot of time on planning, it felt great to start […]
Following on from the previous post about what we currently have in the woodland, here is an overview of the proposed management plan. I fully expect that elements of it will change as I experience the realities of putting it into practice, but this is the current version. As you will have gathered, although it […]
Here is a more detailed description of the current state of the woodland. (For the idiot’s guide see my earlier post (https://womaninthewoods.net/we-bought-a-wood/). There is a post coming soon about our proposed management plan – they’re sort of linked, so I hope you are paying attention! Where is it? Comar Wood is in Strathglass, a fairly […]
Where do you start when you have just bought 50 acres of ancient woodland covered in Sitka spruce? After spending several years thinking about owning a wood, suddenly I had one and I had to figure out what to do with it. The first year was basically about that. Trees take a long time to […]
We had been on the look out for a woodland to buy for quite some time. One that was in need of attention; somewhere we could make a difference by bringing a piece of land back to life. Comar Wood is 50 acres of ancient woodland planted with Sitka spruce and fitted the bill perfectly. […]
