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This
site contains:
- The
FIRST widely available, RELIABLE information
on the Natural Heritage attributes of the Argyll
Semi-Natural Woodland Resource, including detailed
information & photograghs on the individual woodland
sites surveyed in 1998/9 (Level 2) which are identified on
the Main
Map.
- The details of The
Project aims, outputs, benefits, facts & figures gathered on the extent, condition and
potentially utilisable timber content of the Argyll
Semi-Natural Woodland Resource. Also the survey methods used, conclusions made about them, and
the presentation methods needed to maximise the
results / data's usefulness to different end users.
Why?
Argyll was selected for this study as it is an internationally recognised area of
high environmental value having a large, diverse and largely unmanaged semi-natural
woodland resource, the extent, content and quality of which had not been
previously established.
The Caledonian Partnership 'Millennium Guide' Project
established a Geographic Information System (GIS) Inventory
of all woods greater than 0.1 Ha. in size within Argyll (Level
1 data) and the rest of Scotland by using a range of existing
remote sources of information. e.g. Aerial Photos, existing maps and surveys.
The GIS Inventory provides broad information to assist
in management decision-making at both the strategic and
site-based levels.
However more information was required, in order to deliver the maximum local economic
benefit from our semi-natural woodland and to establish a firm
ecological foundation for long term timber production.
Additional new field survey information at increasing levels
of detail which relate a woodlands natural heritage
characteristics (Level 2) and to its timber resource (Level 3) was
developed and trialed in this project by the Caledonian
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This
site is designed for use with a 3.0 or later browser. A suitable version
can be downloaded from either:
Netscape
site
Microsoft
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