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37 www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/infd-7apfxa
Photo and illustration sources
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Top from left to right
- Humus Iron Podzol@ MLURI
- @Noel Fojut/ HS
- @ Noel Fojut/ HS
- Scottish Borders@P&A MacDonald/ SNH
- Dundee Law@P&A MacDonald/ SNH
Map
- The soil of Scotland@Macaulay Institute
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- Bluebelloak woodland ©Lorne Gill/ SNH
- Arable farming at Carghill Pertshire ©Lorne Gill/ SNH
- Dervaig, Mull ©Patricia Bruneau/ SNH
- Machair, Barvas, Isle of Lewis. © Lorne Gill/ SNH
- Coire Fee NNR, Glen Doll, Angus©Lorne Gill/ SNH
- A9 Land slide @ BBC
- Dundee Law © P&A Macdonald / SNH
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- Arable farming at Carghill Pertshire ©Lorne Gill/ SNH
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- The Flow country @Steve Moore/ SNH
- Aerial view of Luann Lochs, @Patricia and Angus Macdonald / SNH
- Argyll sunset ©George Logan/ SNH
- Flanders Moss NNR ©Patricia Bruneau/ SNH
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- Whithorn @ RCAHMS per Noel Fojut/ HS
- Opencast coal mining Muirkirk @P&A MacDonald/ SNH
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