oil on canvas,
cm x cm,
Iain White, 2019,
£285 SOLD
Rothiemurchus has a long history of timber extraction culminating during World War II in felling to fulfill strategic timber requirements. This complex history has affected the forest structure. Today the tree density varies from recent dense areas of regenerating young trees to areas that are quite open almost pine heath in structure.
Elsewhere more mature trees 80 - 100 years in age form a more closed canopy while throughout old post mature trees 200 or so years in age are scattered in groups or individually throughout the forest. These largely segregated age classes seem to reflect past periods of felling and regeneration. Here relatively open forest with trees of intermediate age form the canopy.
