Scotland used to be a forest, it was alive, there was an abundance of wildlife living here, 1.5 million hectares of indigenous trees as far as you could see.
The native pinewoods a vast primeval wilderness of Scots pine, birch,rowan, aspen, juniper and other trees.
On the west coast, oak and birch trees predominated in a temperate rainforest ecosystem rich in ferns, mosses and lichens.