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Hello and thank you very much for downloading the Scotland Outdoors podcast.

I'm Mark Stephen. He's you and McElwraith and we're doing something slightly different this week.

In that, we're celebrating 100 years of forestry in Scotland and we thought we'd let you hear

the programme that we did called Out of Doors and BBC Radio Scotland.

Yeah, the Forestry Commission was formed in 1919 mainly to develop pit props to keep the war effort going.

And they kind of formed it off the back of a lot of the Forestry Service in Malaysia and whatever.

And it's really changed the way Scotland looks today. It's a fascinating story and we were lucky enough to meet some of the folk that made that happen.

Well, they were a lovely bunch of folk.

I have to say, it wasn't particularly easy getting to Monocte Forest.

It was up about two and a half miles of dirt track. But what they were

trying to do was celebrate an occasion literally a hundred years ago last Monday where a tree was

planted in Monocity Forest which lies about, well, two miles west of Elgin. It was planted

to mark the creation of the Forestry Commission in Scotland. Now, we met forestry commissioners, conservators, foresters, forest workers.

There were a lovely bunch of folk.

And I also caught up with a chap.

I haven't seen in years.

Sid House.

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