AE Property For Sale and Rent
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AE arguably
the shortest place-name anywhere, Ae was founded by the Forestry commission in 1047 in cooperation with the then
Dumfries County Council. Bet in a conifer forest of more than 1
2,600 acres.
Experiments at AE have resulted in notable advances in forestry techniques, such as
successful a forestation of peat bog, Plantations have been established to A height of 1,750 ft, well
above the normal tree-line, work study, pioneered here by the Commission,
has brought about the introduction and development of new tools and an
economical system of deploying labour.
The conception of crown-thinning is
another innovation evolved at Ae: and
research continues into the problems of dear control, wind-blow, and replanting.
The forest itself consists mainly of Sitka spruce, small stands of Scots pine, and some Norway spruce.
The
public road from Ae Bridge to Closeburn is lined with
ornamentals and exotics to break the monotony of the conifers. The Forestry
Commission has provided labelled walks through the forest from the
picnic site on the banks of the Water of AE: there is much wildlife,
including roc and fallow deer, fox, hare, weasel, with woodpigeon, yellowhammer,
sparrow-hawk,
|ay, pheasant and partridge.
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