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GLEN NEVIS LAND MANAGEMENT PLAN View from Blarmafoldach towards Blar a
Chaorainn Landscape Character
Mulach Nan Corean. Meall a Chaorainn
The wider landscape is defined by high mountainous
landscape character with high ridges and deep corries
Area felled of commercial conifers
and restocked with site native broadleaves.
Public highway. Also the FC ownership
boundary.
More intimate agricultural landscape at lower elevation
focussed around the crofting lands. Defined by a series of small knolls and fine scale drainage pattern.
Vestige of site upland birch woodland along the burn. This
has now been consolidated with further native woodland planting up into the corrie.
West Highland Way runs through the middle
foreground.
Edge of the Tollie area running into
Glen Nevis
The scale of the landscape is generally large and open but reduces considerably at lower
elevations and particularly around the farm land.
Lines of visual force
Upward (Hollows/ valleys)
Downwards (Ridges)
GLEN NEVIS LAND MANAGEMENT PLAN
View from Blarmafoldach towards Blar a Chaorainn
Lines of visual force
GLEN NEVIS LAND MANAGEMENT PLAN View from Blarmafoldach towards Blar a
Chaorainn New Planting proposals
Area felled and restocked with site
native broadleaves.
Recently planted birch and Scots pine
woodland extending up into the corrie.
Proposed new planting: Small-scale areas of
broadleaved woodland to manage the integration between more intimate farmland and extensive woodland behind.
Proposed new planting: Modest areas of productive conifers
sitting between the small-scale broadleaved woodland and the more extensive birch/ pine woodland.
Retain the most prominent knolls as features in the
landscape from outside and viewing points outward from the West Highland Way.
Area of upland birch punctuated by pine-rich
woodland on the knolls fading out to low density montane woodland running up the mountain flanks.
New planting scheme will tie in with the small areas
of woodland in the foreground and focussed around the farm settlement.
New planting pattern relates the landform and emphasises a semi-natural character
with open farmland at the lower levels through managed woodlands on the middle slopes through birch and pine woodland to upper montane scrub and open peaks.
Line of fences and access tracks will not be visible
from this view and will quickly be absorbed into the overall structure of the woodland.
GLEN NEVIS LAND MANAGEMENT PLAN View from the Callert Path
Landscape character
Area of rock and scree covering an
extensive area of the southern corner of Meall a Chaorainn.
The West Highland Way runs through
on a fairly consistent contour.
Area is characterised by sweeping peaks and high mountain massif.
The Allt na Lairige Moire runs through the glen meeting the River Kiachnich at Lochan Lunn Da Bhra
Mulach Nan Corean is a
Munro.
Stob Ban is a Munro.
The vegetation is heavily grazed throughout the Forestry
Commission landholding. There are still some sheep grazing this area. There are very few remnants of woodland vegetation.
The flanks of the mountains are
punctuated by deeply incised gullies and corries.
Edge of a spruce
retention at Lundavra Wood
West Highland Way running
towards Glen Nevis
West Highland Way running from
Kinlochleven.
Extent of Forestry Commission
ownership. The river is the southern boundary.
The scale of the landscape is large this distant views along and across
the glen with a relative naturalness and sense of wildness.
Lines of visual force
Upward (Hollows/ valleys)
Downwards (Ridges)
GLEN NEVIS LAND MANAGEMENT PLAN View from the Callert Path
Lines of Visual Force
GLEN NEVIS LAND MANAGEMENT PLAN View from the Callert Path
New Planting proposals
Edge of Lundavra Wood. Long term plans to
restock as site native broadleaves but currently has small retentions of spruce.
Upland birch woodland with some groups of
pine/ birch woodland on the more prominent knolls.
Area of rock and scree. Maintain as a largely open feature and break in the
woodland. Maintains a strong sense of place and provides contrast to the woodland along the West Highland Way.
Indicative line of deer fence. This will be gridded and
gated at the interface with the West Highland Way.
Proposals highlight the relative naturalness and sense of wildness and
seek to compliment both these characteristics while diversifying the experience of the landscape
Retain the areas of bog as open habitat. Plant the drier
sites with woodland. This will help with the transition between woodland and open habitat.
Establish riparian woodland along the Lairig. This will
assist in improving the quality of the aquatic habitat.
Line of access tracks will quickly be absorbed
into the woodland setting.