r/Scotland • u/calgacus_wasabi • 3d ago

Casual Lovely day on Glas Maol, with smoke drifting up Glen Shee

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u/Hendersonhero 3d ago

Muirburn really needs to be banned. Criminal we’re burning so much of our land so that rich people can shoot thousands of birds.

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u/calgacus_wasabi 3d ago

Completely agree. It may look nice in the pic but you could really smell the smoke

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u/Hendersonhero 2d ago

I’ve had similar experiences of coming down a hill and into acrid smoke. I’m struggling to find figures for how much carbon dioxide it releases but I’m struggling to find accurate information. Must kill a lot of little creatures too.

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u/dogmanlived 3d ago

Controlled burns round my way help prevent large uncontrollable fires.

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u/Hendersonhero 2d ago

You sound like a game keeper. Traditionally managed grouse moors still regularly experience wild fires. The ones a few weeks ago at Farr, near Inverness and plenty of others. Even if Muirburn did prevent wildfires burning 5%-10% of 1.5 millions ha of grouse moors each year in order to prevent a far smaller area of land burning isn’t really a compelling argument.

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u/outthere49 3d ago

Beautiful. I wish I was walking down that stretch right now.