Land Capability for Forestry, Scotland

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• Last updated: 19 June 2024
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Summary

The main use of the Land Capability Classification for Forestry is as an aid to decision-making at broad planning levels, as a guide for land managers and as a statement of the natural resources of the land of Scotland in terms of forestry potential for educational and general interest purposes. The system is an interpretation derived from several sources and, as with all such approaches, will be subject to some degree of arbitrary decision.

Class F1. Land with excellent flexibility for the growth and management of tree crops Class F2. Land with very good flexibility for the growth and management of tree crops Class F3. Land with good flexibility for the growth and management of tree crops Class F4. Land with moderate flexibility for the growth and management of tree crops Class F5. Land with limited flexibility for the growth and management of tree crops Class F6. Land with very limited flexibility for the growth and management of tree crops Class F7. Land unsuitable for producing tree crops

Please cite as: Soil Survey of Scotland Staff. (1988). Land Capability for Forestry of Scotland at a Scale of 1:250 000. Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Aberdeen.

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2022-03-23
• Access contraints: no limitations on public access
• Harvest GUID: ad1d9b2e-dc1e-4a61-beb8-d61cb6b3704f
• Extent: Latitude: 60.866019° to 54.548773°
• Extent: Longitude: -8.343553° to -0.705118°
• Spatial reference system: OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700)
• Dataset reference date: 1988-01-01 (creation)
• Dataset reference date: 2016-08-01 (publication)
• Frequency of update: irregular
• Responsible party: The James Hutton Institute (custodian, processor)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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This data was produced at a scale of 1:250,000. Use is permitted under the terms of the Open Data licence included in the download.
The James Hutton Institute Open Data Licence