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Out of Doors: 26/03/2016

26/03/2016

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Claire White visits Scotia Seeds and Mark Stephen hears about Galloway's Dark Sky Park.

Claire White visits Scotia Seeds, Scotland's only commercial producer of native wildflower seeds, and Mark Stephen explores Galloway's designation as the UK's first Dark Sky Park.

In the first thirty minutes...

Claire visits Scotia Seeds, Scotland's only commercial producer of native wildflower seeds, to find out about life on their 50 acre farm.

Mark discovers what Galloway's designation as the UK's first Dark Sky Park means for a local astronomy business.

Mark goes juniper hunting in Inshriach with Jonathan Engels of Crossbill Gin and learns from Davie Black of Plantlife Scotland about threats posed to this plant.

After the news...

A couple of weeks ago Dr James Fenton told this programme that Scotland's moorland should be valued as a globally important landscape and that conservationists are overly focused on tree planting. This week, a Scottish biologist based in Norway, Dr Duncan Halley, compares our landscape with that of south west Norway, which is currently being reafforested.

Helen Fletcher tries out an alternative upland route on The John Muir Way which opens this weekend.

Claire coups whilst white water rafting at Glasgow's Pinkston Watersports.

Euan previews the Woodland Trust's Easter egg hunt for dogs on Perth's Moncreiffe Hill.

What do you do if you stumble upon archaeological remains? Cara Jones of Archaeology Scotland has the answers!

And Mark visits one of Scotland's most extraordinary geological features, the Burn O' Vat.

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