Posted by Mike Field on February 11, 2009 at 11:31:40 user mikefield.
In Reply to: Sitka spruce (was: Four firs) posted by Robert Hill on February 09, 2009 at 21:33:24:
Ah. Are they the plantations all over the Highlands that Compton Mackenzie used to rail about? I wonder if they've planted them in such a way that they'll eventually provide slow-growing old-growth timber, or be like the NZ plantation-grown oregon and of use to neither man nor beast.