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nativeastral said:
ps noticed you mentioned sundew- a homeopathic remedy called drosera rotundifolia, a plant used in the 16th century for treating tuberculosis but now for whooping cough [when turning blue] and asthmatic conditions; just wondered if that was harvested/marketed from scotland? ['made from whole plant gathered when starting to flower in july and expressed juice succussed, m.castro, the complete homeopathic handbook']
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I have no idea but I would hate to see the few places I know that are rich in them exploited for that!! Fair enough someone doing it just for family but these habitats are pretty delicate and I would not like to see commercial exploitation. Though there are many crofters who have land eminently suitable for cultivating them and many other usefulls. My ex wife was more into the medicinal uses of native plants and traditional practices of the local countryside. I was more into the food and timber production slant, woods being the most productive habitats.
Living in the city now for so long that this sojourn makes me miss that part of my life a lot. There is something about working on the land that cannot be found in anything else.
 
shawn said:
Here those water lovin critters are something of a pest in some areas and the county will send out someone with dynamite to blow the dams.
I have trapped them before, still have a few hides.
They taste pretty good once boiled and served with mustard.
The tail is a delicacy....to some.
Too greasy for me.

Kind of a namesake as our family is a part of the Beaver First Nation.
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I would love to see Scotland so populous with them that we had to deal with the irritations!! And even to allow a little hunting.:)
 
path_of_one said:
Awesome! Beavers are amazing. They are all over the place in the area I did my field research and they made these enormous dams that were so sturdy that they could be used as bridges across rivers. I find them just so cute.

Wow- so they're reintroducing wolves to the UK? I didn't know y'all had enough prey animals (that aren't livestock)!
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There is one estate owner that is trying to bring back wolves. I think the reality is still a long way off. At present his estate is little more than a wild safari park. I forget at the moment but I have linked to the story somewhere here in the past year.
 
Yes, I remember that - it's a private estate just a bit north from where I am - apparently they have a number of once-extinct species there (I seem to recall moose specifically), but the animals are all still bounded within the estate.

It's not something that appears open to the general public, though. I'm not sure if they've got permission for the wolves yet.
 
wil said:
neverland?
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lol, you can laugh Wil, but would you like no Yosemite or Yellowstone, no wolves, beavers, cougars, rattlesnakes, skunks or bears in your country when you know they are meant to be there?
 
I was referring to the estate with endangered species...

Michael Jackson handles that in the US...however he brings in animals that have never been here.
 
Tao_Equus said:
I have no idea but I would hate to see the few places I know that are rich in them exploited for that!! Fair enough someone doing it just for family but these habitats are pretty delicate and I would not like to see commercial exploitation. Though there are many crofters who have land eminently suitable for cultivating them and many other usefulls. My ex wife was more into the medicinal uses of native plants and traditional practices of the local countryside. I was more into the food and timber production slant, woods being the most productive habitats.
Living in the city now for so long that this sojourn makes me miss that part of my life a lot. There is something about working on the land that cannot be found in anything else.
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nothing to stop you breaking your back tree planting this time!, though l hear grants are harder to come by so less work? wonder how the crofters are coping at subsistence level, sheep are so cheap, farmers are giving up the life or hanging in there doing other jobs back to back to make ends meet [while others using high yield chemicals for the mass market are looking pretty fat]; oh the scots dream to have a wee piece of land [can't even live in a caravan on it cos of 'planning' and 'authorities' and 'regulations' and 'health and safety' blabla:)
 
Awesome!
I do have some environmental concerns however: aren't the beaver likely to eat the wild haggis and claymores?
 
just saw some beavers settling well in knapdale, coppicing the woodland in their dam building. 'autumnwatch' bbc2
 
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nativeastral said:
just saw some beavers settling well in knapdale, coppicing the woodland in their dam building. 'autumnwatch' bbc2
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Thanx for that!

Was talking myself to the woman featured on the piece a few weeks ago and though the brief mention of opposition was not dwelt on at least one of the beavers has been shot:mad: Regardless it is great to see them doing so well.
 
Ooo, beavers. And wolves! Oh, my!

It's great to see people restoring land instead of decimating it. Grr, one of em got shot? That's just... that's just evil. But I wonder how much trouble the person will get into if they find the culprit, seeing as how they're messing with government money...
 
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