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.