A WARM WELCOME to Friends of Callander Moraine.
This site has four purposes:
1. To raise public awareness about the Callander Moraine - a landform of international scientific importance - created during the Loch Lomond Stadial, Scotland's most recent glacial period that occurred between 13,000 and 11,000 years ago.
2. To alert those who care about Callander Moraine that most of the section that was situated south of the A84 is now gone. An aggregates company invoked an old, pre-National Park planning consent and demolished the part for which they had extraction rights.
3. To remind people that although we campaigned successfully back in 2005-2006 to prevent the north half of Callander Moraine from being destroyed by an aggregates company, the moraine and the red squirrels who live on it still need to be protected. Since 2009 housing developers have built right up to the western side. On the eastern side, at Auchenlaich, the outwash (long since quarried) has been earmarked for a large hotel and leisure operation. The scheme features in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority's Local Plan 2010-2015, now in force until a new Local Development Plan is prepared. Worryingly, FOCM members have repeatedly had to remind the Park Authority of the moraine's existence.
4. To ask those who care about conservation, climate change and the UK's natural heritage to participate in our continuing campaign to prevent the destruction of this landscape feature, which is home to a colony of red squirrels and a heronry; is a greatly-loved local amenity; is part of a uniquely valuable field site for students studying Earth Sciences at schools and universities in the UK and Western Europe; and holds key evidence for scientists researching rapid climate change.
If you could spare a few minutes to read through our site and perhaps
pass on our URL
( http://www.friendsofcallandermoraine/ ) to others who
might be interested we would be most grateful.
Thank you,
Friends of Callander Moraine
Callander
Perthshire
Scotland, UK.