AN outbreak of a disease that threatens to wipe out Britain's ash trees has been reported at four newly-planted Scottish woodlands.
AN outbreak of a disease that threatens to wipe out Britain's ash trees has been reported at four newly-planted Scottish woodlands.
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David Ross Highland Correspondent
Saplings have been uprooted and burned as a precaution against Chalara ash die-back at Knockmountain Wood, near Kilmacolm, Inverclyde, owned by Forestry Commission Scotland (FCS), and at a nursery at Fochabers in Moray.
The disease is suspected at sites at Carrbridge, south of Inverness, and a fourth unidentified location in the south-east, where tests have been carried out to determine if any trees have been infected.
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