Repopulate Scottish islands with trees!

No... seen the size of Lewis and Harris? Would be considered an eco catastrophe if you depopulated Wales of all its trees. They seem to manage both sheep and trees without any difficulty.

Is it? Who stole the island we used to own, Great Britain? That has to be the greatest land grab ever.

I only ask because this thread seems like a long-game troll. Pretty much everything you’ve said is utter tripe.

Not sure how Great Britain can steal a part of Great Britain... maybe the same mindset which says we can't have trees, they would upset our sheep. Just pointing out that Wales seem to manage both ok.

The United Kingdom is not Great Britain. Great Britain is the largest island in the British isles that contains the bulk of the territory of England, Scotland and Wales. The United Kingdom also includes about 3,000 other islands and Northern Ireland.

Not sure how Great Britain can steal a part of Great Britain... maybe the same mindset which says we can't have trees, they would upset our sheep. Just pointing out that Wales seem to manage both ok.

You seem to be claiming that costal islands are not part of Great Britain... beg to differ. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain#Modern_use_of_the_term_Great_Britain

Think you'll find that was Violet... we can't have trees, we keep sheep! In the Midlands, we have spent 20 yrs replanting the National Forest and it's doing wonders for both the environment and the countryside.

What I mean is that everything you have put in this thread is essentially nonsense.

You started it by saying that the Isles of Orkney and the Hebrides are treeless.

This is not true. There are trees in the Hebrides, on Lewis and Harris and on the Orkneys as well.

You make no effort to explore why these places might not be heavily forested. Perhaps because of the climate since the Bronze Age, rather than just human activity?

You make the bizarre claim that TSR is saving the planet because trees have been planted in Shetland and Stornoway in the last few months. There have been tree planting programmes in Shetland for decades, and in Stornoway for the better part of 200 years.

Ahem. Great Britain is the name of one of the largest ten or so islands in the world. Great Britain is also used colloquially to mean the nation state of the UK and, often, the UK except NI. However, you didn't do that. You specifically said that Lewis & Harris is the largest island in the UK. The UK is not used colloquially to mean anything other than the UK - the country that comprises all the constituent islands plus NI.

The largest island in the UK is undoubtedly the island called Great Britain.

They were practically treeless until recently... famous for it. Bronze age people deforested them and they were treeless for millennia. I never said that trees were only planted in the last few months... I said this post was only months old and hope it encourages more planting.

This is pretty much the exact opposite of everything you've written in this thread so far.

Sadly, Wales' uplands are a "sheepwreck" - overgrazed and subject to severe soil erosion. Only by importing large quantities of supplemental feed can we keep that number of sheep on the land. Luckily, there is a growing movement supporting "rewilding", including a recent initiative funded by the Wales Wild Land Foundation, to return the land to more sustainable management. You probably know about a couple of the Scottish ones - like Rewilding Scotland. The biggest theft of the land probably took place during the enclosures of the 18th and 19th centuries, when around 7 million acres of common land in England and Wales, previously open for the use of peasants and the rural poor, was turned into the private property of the rich. As you know, in Scotland, the Highland Clearances of the 18th and 19th centuries involved the forced eviction of thousands of families, turning them out so as to make way for sheep. Scotland's treeless landscape is largely the legacy of this.

The island of Great Britain is as you describe. Politically and nationally however... Great Britain is understood to mean the mainland and its 6,000 plus offshore islands making Lewis and Harris unquestionably British by either definition.

Of course it is British. However, it is smaller than Great Britain (the island) and therefore not, as you claimed, the largest island in the UK.

Ok so Stornoway disagrees too.
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Sheep chomp trees? Only the saplings so we place a little fence around them (the saplings, not the sheep).
20yrs later... a forest! Let them try to chomp on that.

They don't have to chomp them. Sheep are good at ring-barking trees by rubbing against them, which is why you'd need to retain fencing and manage it.

That costs money, so unless you can justify commercial use (certainly difficult in Shetland given increased costs of infrastructure/transport), you'll over ever see reforestation on a limited scale.