Land ownership in Scotland is among the most concentrated in the rich world. Just 0.025% of the population owns 67% of rural private land (in England, by comparison, 1% of the population owns half ...

Hence the strategy Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) wants to use: plant saplings, not seeds, and crank those saplings out faster than nature could. In the wild, wrote Severin Carrell in The Guardian, ...