Scrubbers Bulletins
The annual newsletter of MSAG
Most Recent Edition:
| Scrubbers Bulletin 16 (2024) |
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Other Publications
New:
- Mountain Woodlands Journal 2026. To mark the 30th Anniversary of the first Montane Scrub conference and the setting up of the Montane Scrub Action Group, now known as the Mountain Woodlands Action Group, Reforesting Scotland have focussed their latest newsletter (Issue 73) on this movement and the ongoing promotion of the benefits of expanded mountain woodlands. Read here.
- Thinking outside the bog: Planting dwarf birch (Betula nana) for mountain woodland restoration beyond habitat refugia constrained by overgrazing - ScienceDirect - 2026. Read here.
- Why the present is not the key to past or future: moving beyond restricted relict habitat conditions to improve outcomes in mountain woodland restoration - Watts - 2025 - Restoration Ecology - Wiley Online Library. Read here.
- Montane willow scrub restoration in Scotland: reviewing 30 years of progress to reestablish the altitudinal treeline - Watts - 2025 - Restoration Ecology - Wiley Online Library. Read here.
- High mountain trees: altitudinal records recently broken for eleven different tree species in Britain - British & Irish Botany - 2023. Read here.
- The benefits of mountain woodland restoration - Watts - 2022 - Restoration Ecology - Wiley Online Library. Read here.
| Seed Stand Project Summary Report 2025 |
| The Benefits of Mountain Woodland 2020 |
| MSAG Forward Plan 2019 |
| Woolly Willow SAF Handbook 2015 |
| Mountain Woodlands Best Practice Handbook 2010 |
| The Challenge Above the Treeline 2002 |
| Low Alpine, Subalpine and Coastal Scrub Communities in Scotland 2000 |