Out of Doors

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Out of Doors: Dams, Peewits and Coastal Rowing

Dams, Peewits and Coastal Rowing

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Mark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith with stories from the great outdoors.

Mark is in Lochaline on the Morvern Peninsula meeting up with members of the Morvern Community Development Company where what is believed to be Europe’s largest community hydro scheme is being created.

During our visit to Ben Lawers National Nature Reserve recently, Mark and Euan took a look at the impressive Ben Lawers Dam and learnt about how this landscape has been shaped by humans over the centuries.

With a spate of wildfires occurring in Scotland lately, we hear from Nature Scotland about how displaced wildlife cope with losing their habitat.

Do you know your peewit from your teuchit?  Amanda Thomson shares some of her favourite Scots words for Nature with Euan.

Mark takes a walk to the tidal Cramond Island near Edinburgh in the Firth of Forth and learns about its war time history.

To celebrate a decade of the Scottish Coastal Rowing Project we hear about the large scale rowing relay underway around our coastline.

Author Adam Nicholson takes Mark to see the rockpools he’s created on the Morven Peninsula.  (Nb an extract from Scotland Outdoors Midweek Podcast)

Phil Sime takes a sensory walk around Ness Islands in Inverness and shares his experience of being visually impaired.

And we hear about Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Plate which was designed to print money in 1746 and now housed in the West Highland Museum in Fort William.

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