The Carrifran Wildwood Story

“Today, after fifteen years, the once bare slopes of Carrifran are dotted and striped with young trees which, judging by the photographs in this well-illustrated book, any stranger might assume to be enitrely natural…The message – that land can be restored by people without millionaires or state bureaucracies – will surely give hope to would-be Carrifranners everywhere.” British Wildlife.“Photographs of stunning quality and variety appear on almost every page adding to the delight of reading a chapter or browsing through the pages…The text is a glorious combination of prose, poetry and pictures.” BSS News.“…anyone who reads this book will be won over by the particpants’ enthusiasm and impressed by their lively sketches of the history, plants and animals of southern Scottish Uplands.” Geographical Reviews.“Wildlife conservation projects are widely reported in many journals today but few can claim the level of dedication and success reported in this remarkable book.” Biological Conservation.“The project, achieved mostly through voluntary effort, is a superb example of practical conservation and can-do attitude.” Scottish Wildlife.“The main aim of the project was the ecological restoration of this piece of upland Britain, but the Wildwood Group who steered the project also wanted it to be an inspiration and a model for other projects…The book plays a central role in this aim by recording the process and showing how a brilliant idea has become reality.” ECOS.“To say that you have read a book cover-to-cover at a single session is quite an endorsement of the quality of the story…The Group’s expertise in the gamut of aspects relating to woodland creation is probably unique and it has meant that the care and attention to detail in the wood’s creation is unsurpassed.” Scottish Birds.“Lavishly illustrated, superbly designed and very well written, this exceptional book lays bare one of the most important nature conservation projects in the UK.” BES Bulletin.“This is an epic tale…A flick through the book will show that every page has something of interest…In addition to the text, the book has a mass of maps, photographs, drawings of the wildlife in and around Carrifran, and cartoons…All of these are of very high quality.” Scottish Forestry.“An inspirational book on a unique and thoroughly worthwhile project.” A judge for the Robin Jenkins Literary Award.