Agriculture and Wildlife

Over the years we have added information on Scottish wild life and plants and so this page is to provide you with links to these resources on Electric Scotland. We've also provided considerable information on Agriculture in Scotland and that has it's own section which you can get to below.

• Agriculture
  A section about Scottish Agriculture
• Plant Life in the Scottish Highlands
  By Alexander Edward Holden
• Flora Scotica
  A description of Scottish Plants.
• Heather
  An article about Heather
• Thistle
  An article about the Thistle
• Highland Cattle
  An article about Highland Cattle
• The Moor and The Loch
  A book by John Colquhoun (1841) about hunting, fishing and shooting in Scotland
• Botany in Stirlingshire
  A chapter about botany in Stirlingshire in Central Scotland
• The Harvest of the Sea
  A book including sketches of Fisheries & Fisher Folk by James G. Bertram (1873)
• Plants and Shrubs
  Description and uses. (pdf file)
• Celtic Dyes
  An article from the Celtic Magazine
• Highland Remides
  Taken from the Celtic Magazine
• Wild Life in the West Highlands
  A book by Charles Henry Alston with illustrations by A. Scott Rankin (1912)
• Sketches of the Wild Sports & Natural History of the Highlands
  A book by Charles St. John (1878)
• Autumnal Rambles Among The Scottish Mountains
  A book by the Rev. Thomas Grierson, A.M. 1851
• Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland
  Articles from various volumes of this publication in the last half of the 19th century. to which we've added some additional information on general farming both at home and abroad.
• Forest to Be Restored to Scottish Highlands
  An article about how for the first time in 2,000 years, Scots pine, alder, birch, hazel, holly, and mountain ash are set to reclaim a large swath of the Scottish Highlands.
• Scottish Animals and Pets
  Where we have a small collection of information
• Nature Lore of the Orkneys
  This is from The Orkney Book where they have a section on Nature Lore.
• From Fox's Earth to Mountain Tarn
  Days among the wild animals of Scotland by J. H. Crawford (1907)
• Wild Life of Scotland
  By J. H. Crawford, F.L.S. (1898) (pdf)
• From the Scots Weekend
  A review of nature in Scotland.
• The Book of the Garden
  By Charles M'Intosh (1853) Volume 1  |  Volume 2
• Gardening
  A selection of articles on Gardening
• The Remarkable Botanist Physicians
  Natural Science in the Age of Empire by Ron McEwen
• Field and Fern
  Or Scottish Flocks and Herds by H. H. Dixon (1865)
• Twenty-Six Years Reminiscences of the Scotch Grouse Moors
  By W. A. Adams (1889) (pdf)
• The Birds of the West of Scotland
  Including the Outer Hebrides with occasional Records of the Occurrence of the Rarer Species throughout Scotland by Robert Gray (1871) (pdf)
• History of the Berwickshire Naturalists Club
  Instituted September 22, 1831 (pdf)
• Fur and Feather Series
  Edited by Alfred E. T. Watson
• The Life of the Bee
  By Maurice Maeterlinck (1903) (pdf)
• The Natural History of a Highland Parish
  (Ardclach, Nairnshire) by Robert Thomson (1900) (pdf)
• The Deer Forests of Scotland
  By A. Grimble (1896) (pdf)

Why Not Scotland? - The Rewilding Nation documentary
Join Flo, a young Scot from Glasgow, on an intensely personal journey, as she seeks out examples of nature recovery around Europe. Like many of her generation, Flo is concerned by the state of nature and fearful about an uncertain future. But during her travels, she discovers places where nature is making a spectacular comeback, breathing life back into the landscape and revitalising human communities. Encouraged by these stories of hope and renewal, she is prompted to wonder: Why Not Scotland?

• From the Scottish Gazetteer
  • Position, Boundaries, Extent, and Area
  • Leading Physical Features
  • Mountains, Lakes, Rivers, and Islands
  • The Botany of Scotland
  • The Geology of Scotland
  • Meteorology
  • Zoology
  • Agriculture
  • Fisheries
  • Deer Forests and Grouse Moors
• Scottish Wildcats
  There are now some 400 wildcats left in the wild and here you'll learn more about them.
• The Eriskay Pony
  A wee bit of background on this breed.
• The Annals of Scottish Natural History
  A quarterly magazine with which is incorporated "The Scottish Naturalist"
• Edinburgh Natural History Society
  Their Journal
• The Scottish Naturalist
  A Magazine of Scottish Natural History
• A Bushel of Corn (pdf)
  By A Stephan Wilson (Note: In Volume 3 of The Annals of Scottish Natural History there is an obituary of this author.
• Edible Wild Plants of Scotland
  From The Scottish Naturalist
• Plant Lore, Legends and Lyrics
  By Richard Folkard (1892)
• History of British Birds
  By William MacGillivray in 2 volumes
• A Noxious Pack
  Historical, Literary and Folklore traditions of the Wolf (Canis Lupus) in the Scottish Highlands by Andrew E.M. Wiseman, University of Edinburgh (pdf)
• Old Caledonian Pinewood by Dunlop, Balharry and Watson, July 2013
  Note by Ramblers Scotland (pdf)

Scottish Highlands & Wild Life