The group considering Loch Morlich... © Ken Thomson
Together with some Cairngorm Club members, we met at Loch Morlich for a short walk conducted by Forestry & Land Scotland staff up the track towards Rothiemurchus Lodge. We stopped - in a somewhat chilly wind! - to hear about FLS activities in support of the above project, "a bold and ambitious 200-year vision to enhance habitats, species and ecological processes across a vast area within the Cairngorms National Park", i.e. from Abernethy and Rothiemurchus round to Glenfeshie (Deeside estates seem to have dropped off).
The group considering Loch Morlich... © Ken Thomson
Most discussion focussed on the management of the half-million visitors to Glenmore each year, and on forest transformation/creation - the latter mainly by regeneration through deer suppression: about 100 deer are shot each year in Rothiemurchus. Afterwards, several of us went on the Cairngorm Club Footbridge, about which FLS has in mind to "do something" (to ease crossing up its steep steps), but what, and when, is unclear.
PS: As members may have noted, the Glenmore Visitor Centre, with its café and car park, is to be taken over from FLS by the Aviemore & Glenmore Community Trust: see the FLS "Communities" website.
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