James Fenton www.fenton.scot
* December 2023 * Landscape Change in the Scottish Highlands: Imagination & Reality Whittles Publishing -- Details here --
Bemoaning the loss of the Highland landscape
Draft Scottish Biodiversity Strategy 2022 Comments on the draft from James Fenton 8 pages August 2022 My main comment on this strategy is that the proposed action is not based on any real understanding of the long term ecological dynamics of Scotland, particularly of the Highlands.
Global warming, carbon emissions & land use in Scotland: A simplified guide There appears to be little understanding of the difference between carbon cycling in ecosystems and the release of fossil carbon from burning fossil fuels. Numerous diagrams, 6 pages, March 2020
Musings on the meaning of wild land October 2019 First publshed in Wild Land News Issue 95.
Landscape Assessment Introduction to Landscape A guide to landscape description, assessment and planning for the non-specialist. Colour diagrams, 53 pages, 1.8mb. Nov. 2020
January 2023 The Role of Grazing in Maintaining Open Landscapes in Temperate Regions International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources, January 2023 Click here for details
The landscape of SCOTLAND
An 8-minute audio version of Chapters 2 & 3, the critique of reforestation, is now available from SciPod