Craigdhu Wedge, Milngavie

Complex mixture of woodland, young plantations, scrub and open ground. Most of the site is surrounded by housing, with open farmland to the north-west. Most of the established woodland (mostly ash and goat willow with some oak, beech, Scots pine and an understorey of hawthorn and elm) is on the steep slopes to the south of a small burn. The lower slopes to the north of the burn are also wooded. The upper slopes towards the north edge of the site are mostly scrub and open ground with some trees. Natural colonisation of the slope by trees is likely to continue. Young plantations (Scots pine, larch, Norway spruce, sitka spruce, oak, beech, hazel, ash, rowan. cherry, and red oak) are mostly in a narrow strip, which extends westwards. Dense spacing within these plantations is resulting in fast upward growth of thin trees. Fences, put up to protect these plantations, are now falling into disrepair. There are mature and over-mature beech trees along parts of the site boundary. Access from Galbraith Drive OSGR: NS 550 734