SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARK

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 59, 10 March 1936, Page 4

SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARK

Scotland is at last to have her first National Forest Park, writes the Scottish correspondent of "The Listener." The unplantable portions of the mountain lands belonging to the Forestry Commissioners and the Corporation of Glasgow on the western shore of Loch Long, Argyll, are to be thrown together for this purpose. It is a magnificent stretch of wild country, some twenty miles long and anything from three to six in depth, and It is certain to attract genuine climbers and campers from the south, as well as devotees of the new out-of-doors cult in an overcrowded industrial area. Fears had been expressed that the amenities would attract the litterlout and the ukulele expert, but the director of Glasgow's parks was able to say that his experience in Ardgoil, a particularly wild area to be included in the new park, did not by any means justify the apprehension; and it is much that the Forestry Commissioners, with all their fears of fire and responsibility for young trees, are willing to put their trust in the decency of the bona-flde vagabonds 'of the new age. And that is surely the supreme justification of the park and the movement it. will serve. Glasgow Corporation still keeps its ratepayers off the grass in its urban enclosures. But it agreeably seems that the city dweller turned hiker. can now be trusted to , behave himself! '