#ScotsPine sustainability via cone production

🌲2025's cone count (55.4) exceeded 2024's (11.9)
🌲Heavily thinned stands yielded most cones: 16.8 (2024) & 96.6 (2025)

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#BioResJournal #OpenAccess #forestry #treeresearch

A high-contrast black and white photograph of several tall Scots Pine trees in the foreground, their dark, textured bark and spreading needle canopies silhouetted against a pale, clear sky. The trees are positioned on a ridge, overlooking a vast, misty valley with rolling hills and distant fields in the background. The lighting is bright, creating deep shadows in the undergrowth and sharp details on the branches, evoking a peaceful yet dramatic atmospheric mood.

High Contrast Pines up near Ballycorus Lead Mine.

#photography #EastCoastKin #TeamPixel #Ireland #Monochrome #NaturePhotography #Wicklow #BlackAndWhite #ScotsPine #IrishLandscape #Woodland

A vertical outdoor photograph taken from behind a textured, dark-brown tree trunk of a Scots Pine, which frames the left side and top of the shot with its twisting branches and dense green needles. In the background, a vast valley of tawny, dried grasses leads toward rolling hills and a prominent mountain peak capped with a dusting of white snow. The sky is a brilliant, deep blue filled with voluminous, fluffy white clouds.

The view over to the snow-capped Lugnaquilla (Leinster’s highest peak) from the Glen of Imaal, County Wicklow. I loved the way that lonely pine tree framed the shot. 

#photography #EastCoastKin #TeamPixel #Wicklow #Ireland #ScotsPine #HikingIreland #NatureLover #VisitIreland #LandscapePhotography

'King of the Forest' - Scots Pine in a prime spot to catch some rays. #IsleofMan #IsleofManLandscapes #ManxNature #scotspine

🪪📐Species identity and spatial scale drive context‑dependent tree diversity effects in a Finnish forest experiment

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#DBH #NeedleTraits #NorwaySpruce #ScotsPine #SpeciesDiversity #TreeDivNet

A vertical outdoor shot taken on a bright, sunny day. Two tall pine trees stand on a grassy dune in the foreground, leaning significantly to the left due to prevailing winds. In the background, a deep blue sea with gentle white waves rolls onto a sandy beach under a vibrant blue sky with fluffy white clouds.

The famous leaning pines of Raven Point! 🌲🌊 There’s something so resilient about how they stand against the salt and wind.

#RavenPoint #Wexford #Ireland #Nature #ScotsPine #Coastal #Sunny #photography #EastCoastKin #TeamPixel

Wild pines - Trees for Life We are finding Scotland's lost wild pines in partnership with the Woodland Trust. Caledonian pinewoods are among our oldest and richest habitats. They are characterised by wild Scots pines, descended…

On this day in 2014, #Scotspine became Scotland's national tree 🌲 These iconic trees form the backbone of Scotland’s Caledonian #pinewoods, one of our richest habitats.

Discover how we're saving Scotland's wild pine fragments👉 treesforlife.org.uk/about-us/wha...

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An old Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris) photographed from the base towards the top, its partly orange branches clearly standing out against the greenish-gray conifers. The sky is gray and wintry.

I come here to listen, to nestle in the curve of the roots, in a soft hollow of pine needles. To lean my bones against the column of white pine, to turn off the voice in my head until I can hear the voices outside it.🖤
-Robin Wall Kimmerer

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#ScotsPine
#photography
#EastCoastKin

#ScotsPine #Tree at #GoldenHour
This 100 ‘ pine, lives across the street from me. Last night the sun was lighting up the orange bark, making it appear to glow. Worried for it’s fate as it is very close to a street where trees are being whacked down. #PNW #Photography #WhippleCreek #RidgefieldWA

Let’s spruce up those Shropshire tree-spotting skills! 🎄🌿

Each tree tells a story. Explore our tree ID guide and discover the trees that shape Shropshire’s landscape.

#12DaysWild #WildlifeUK #ExploreShropshire #TreeGuide #BritishTrees #WildShropshire #ScotsPine #TreeSpotting #ShropshireTrees

Scots pine with a bit of autumn colour.

#glenaffric #scotspine #scottish #highlands #trees #landscapephotography

Scots pines by the river in Glen Torridon, Wester Ross, Scotland.

#torridon #scotland #scotspine #landscapephotography #trees

#Pine #Tree and some #Maple #Leaves
This may be a #ScotsPine #PinusSylvestris
#FallColor #PNW #Photography

#trees #nativetrees #irishnativetrees #ireland #mayo #castlebar #sapplings #sessileoak #alder #birch #rowan #willow #honeysuckle #holly #hawthorn #scotspine #juniper #yew #spindle #dogrose #wildgarlic #crabapple #elder #wychelm #aspen

#trees #nativetrees #irishnativetrees #ireland #mayo #castlebar #sapplings #sessileoak #alder #birch #rowan #willow #honeysuckle #holly #hawthorn #scotspine #juniper #yew #spindle #dogrose #wildgarlic #crabapple #elder #wychelm #aspen

In situ #ZnO, SiO2, and #TiO2 particle formation in #ScotsPine & Norway spruce wood enhances surface hydrophobicity and #UVResistance & strengthens #antifungal protection, enabling #ecofriendly #HybridWood development.

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Early morning Scots Pine, Highland.

#scotspine #sunrise #highlands

Shapely Scots pine on a snowy, and sunny morning at the end of last year

A couple of shapely Scots pine gracing the landscape in the Caledonian forest, Scottish Highlands

#scotspine #scotland #naturephotography

📢 PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT 📢

🌳 Can Scots pine thrive in a changing climate?

🔬 Our scientists are reopening the national Scots pine breeding programme to test resilience to disease, drought & more.

🔗 Read more:
www.forestprotection.uk/project/cfp2...

#ScotsPine #ForestResilience #TreeBreeding

A defiant pine shaped by the elements at the upper limits of the Caledonian forest, likely at the edge of the krummholz zone.

#scotland #naturephotography #krummholz #landscapephotography #scotspine #fog

Two scots pine trees stand on a small hill illuminated by morning side light. the glen drops steeply behind them before rising again in the distance, covered in ancient forest. the foreground features regenerating ground cover, with bracken, birch, pines, and heather.

Ah, summer in the Highlands! What a joy it was to spend the last few weeks exploring some of my favourite glens in resplendent greens and golden light. These last years I've spent much of my efforts focused on the other "better" seasons (this is of course a fallacy) […]

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Two people are measuring the girth of a large Scots pine tree with a measuring tape. Another person is writing something on a clipboard. They are in an old growth Caledonian pine forest. Credit WTML.

It's hard to beat an old #ScotsPine (IOHO). This one in the #Cairngorms was recorded as 5.3m in diameter - a monster for a Scots pine (though girth is not always the best indicator of age). @cairngormsnews.bsky.social‬ @cairngormsconnect.bsky.social‬
#ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees

Impact note page 1. Text and images summarising research findings investigating the impact of tree species diversification on the resilience of forest-associated biodiversity.

Impact note page 2. Text and images summarising research findings investigating the impact of tree species diversification on the resilience of forest-associated biodiversity.

❓ DYK tree species diversification won’t provide resilience for much of the biodiversity associated with #ScotsPine?
Findings from the fascinating #DiversiTree #research project summarised
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Breaking fog amongst ancient Scots pine trees in the Caledonian forest.

When the mist starts to break in the Caledonian forest. The photos never quite live up to the magic of the moment. Winter 2025.

#scotland #scotspine #naturephotography #landscapephotography

Scots pine and crepuscular rays in the Caledonian forest

One I have not shared before from last Summer. Photography has made me a morning person (of sorts). The light made it worthwhile on this occasion.

#caledonianforest #scotspine #landscapephotography #nature

Our meadow coming into Bloom with wildflowers

Scots Pine planted end of April

#todayinourfields

#wildflowers #scotspine #biodiversity

Morning light illuminating the ancient pinewoods at the Foot of Liathach in the Northwest highlands of Scotland.

Pinewoods catching some morning light in early April, with the mighty Liathach behind.

#scotland #nature #landscapephotography #mountains #scotspine

Cones on next doors Scots pine
#photography #nature #spring #pinecones #scotspine

Fog rising and falling on a memorable morning in the Caledonian forest in the Scottish Highlands.

Islands in the mist (2023). Fog rising and falling on a memorable morning in the Caledonian forest in the Scottish Highlands.

#scotland #lanscapephotography #nature #scotspine

A hazy view into the Caledonian forest

A really hazy morning last year created some quite unusual conditions and a lovely relaxing mood in the pinewoods.

#landscapephotography #scotland #photography #nature #scotspine