:00:30. > :00:34.Hello and welcome to Landward. Leading you through the Scottish
:00:34. > :00:39.countryside until the end of June. In a moment I will be taking a
:00:39. > :00:47.Whitewater ride in search of wild oysters. Here it is -- here is what
:00:47. > :00:50.is coming up. We assess the impact of the winter storms in the forests.
:00:50. > :00:56.It is like a giant hand swept through the forest and knocked
:00:56. > :01:06.everything down. It is devastation. Nick tries to convince me to eat an
:01:06. > :01:07.
:01:07. > :01:12.oyster. I have caught them for you. -- Corp. And the link between
:01:12. > :01:22.grouse, a Highland glen and an ill- fated Arctic exhibition. Every
:01:22. > :01:28.
:01:28. > :01:33.grass that died on every British Oysters are a bit like Marmite. You
:01:33. > :01:38.either a love them or you hate them. I fall into the latter category.
:01:38. > :01:48.Despite my prejudices, I went to find out more about the native
:01:48. > :01:49.
:01:49. > :01:54.oyster. My quest took me as far as Served in the finest restaurants
:01:54. > :01:59.around the world, or oysters are synonymous with wealth and luxury.
:01:59. > :02:05.Famed for their aphrodisiac qualities, their popularity goes
:02:05. > :02:12.back centuries. But popularity comes at a price. By the 1950s,
:02:12. > :02:22.over fishing had decimated native oyster populations. As a result,
:02:22. > :02:24.
:02:24. > :02:29.the majority of oysters are rock oysters. They are not commercially
:02:29. > :02:36.viable to harvest. Today there is only one wild oyster fishery in
:02:36. > :02:40.Loch Ryan. The season runs from September through to April. Fishing
:02:40. > :02:46.stocks to allow the oysters to breathe. I joined the crew to help
:02:46. > :02:52.bring in the cat. Prof cheat mack put in more back than they are
:02:52. > :03:02.taking out. We are just taking the big ones. The small ones we leave
:03:02. > :03:05.
:03:05. > :03:10.him. -- wheelie bin. The larger 85 grams and above. The rest we relay
:03:10. > :03:16.back into the bed. We do not go back near them for a few years.
:03:16. > :03:22.That is how they are sustainable? Yes. When oysters are close
:03:22. > :03:29.together on the seabed, there are more likely to fertilise. Most of
:03:29. > :03:36.our time at the moment is putting it dents beds of oysters, receding
:03:36. > :03:39.them. Many oysters per square metre. The fishery is the property of the
:03:39. > :03:45.Wallace family. They have owned the fishing rights for more than 300
:03:45. > :03:54.years. We have quite a few of the old books from the individual
:03:54. > :04:01.fishermen. Perhaps in Bloxwich sales. We have got any number of
:04:01. > :04:07.books showing the actual catch. They are beautifully maintained
:04:08. > :04:13.books. We have tens of them going back to the 1850 is. Is it
:04:13. > :04:17.important to have a record of what is coming out of the water? It is
:04:17. > :04:21.certainly extremely interesting to know that in the old days there
:04:21. > :04:26.were hundreds of tons coming out of the loch rather than the Twenties
:04:26. > :04:32.and Thirties we have got now. We know that the lock in the old days
:04:32. > :04:36.sustainably had a great deal more oysters than today. We do not think
:04:36. > :04:43.there is a any reason why it should not be the same again. They do not
:04:43. > :04:49.necessarily breed every year. -- breed. You have to be kind and not
:04:49. > :04:54.take out very many. Sustainability is very important? It is
:04:54. > :05:04.fundamental. Without it, you would have nothing. How many years does
:05:04. > :05:05.
:05:05. > :05:14.it take for them to get to that stage? 5 to six years. You cannot
:05:14. > :05:23.control how bouncy the water is! You picked the wrong day. What
:05:23. > :05:33.percentage do you throw back in? 95%. We only take, if even 5%. We
:05:33. > :05:33.
:05:33. > :05:41.only take what we need. I guess that makes it a long-term business?
:05:41. > :05:51.That is the All point, it keeps it going. Like many Scots, I am not a
:05:51. > :05:58.fan of eating raw oysters. But Nick is trying to persuade more of us to
:05:58. > :06:08.be more adventurous with our seafood. In the meantime, after you.
:06:08. > :06:09.
:06:09. > :06:13.Delicious. Absolutely delicious. will have mine Cup. -- Cup. The
:06:13. > :06:19.National Trust for Scotland has one key purpose, to promote and Concern
:06:19. > :06:24.of our heritage. It is a mammoth task trying to preserve some of her
:06:24. > :06:28.most iconic castles and houses. I have been finding out how they do
:06:28. > :06:33.it. For 80 years, the National Trust for Scotland has been working
:06:33. > :06:38.to protect and preserve our heritage for future generations.
:06:38. > :06:47.The charity looks after 129 Heritage buildings, such as castles
:06:47. > :06:55.and mansions. But it is total -- its total property portfolio runs
:06:55. > :06:58.to 1600 build structures. -- built. If these buildings are going to be
:06:58. > :07:02.visited by future generations, it is vital that maintenance and
:07:02. > :07:08.repair work is are regularly carried out. Last year the trust
:07:09. > :07:15.spent just under �10 million on the built heritage. The man with the
:07:15. > :07:18.task of overseeing the maintenance work is Brian Dixon. The National
:07:18. > :07:28.Trust for Scotland look after a wide variety of buildings and
:07:28. > :07:30.
:07:30. > :07:36.building types. These can range from the iconic castles, to some of
:07:36. > :07:40.Scotland's most ground-breaking buildings, like the Hill House in
:07:40. > :07:46.Helensburgh. We also look after a vast array of buildings in between.
:07:46. > :07:51.A lot of buildings. How do you prioritise the work? One of the
:07:51. > :07:55.main elements to that is the planned preventive maintenance
:07:55. > :08:00.programme. It is those sick of the works that happen on our sights on
:08:00. > :08:07.a regular basis. -- cyclical. We make sure those activities happen
:08:07. > :08:11.first. Your annual maintenance goes on. What about long-term? We have a
:08:11. > :08:16.system of five to seven-year surveys. Those are undertaken at
:08:16. > :08:23.the main houses. The information from that gives us a snapshot of
:08:23. > :08:30.the help of that building at that particular time. -- health. We get
:08:30. > :08:38.a list of urgent, necessary and desirable works. Today I Matt Hill
:08:39. > :08:44.of target Meir Cupar. -- I am at. - - Hill of Tarvit. I cannot go up
:08:44. > :08:51.there. There is another house on the estate in need of TLC. Tim is
:08:51. > :08:57.one of the team of surveyors. Hi there, Tim. Good to see you. It is
:08:57. > :09:06.a cold day. He is. At least the sun is shining. We will have a look
:09:06. > :09:14.inside. What is the significance of this place? It is a lovely
:09:14. > :09:18.Victorian cabbage. It retains a lot of nice features. -- Cottage. We
:09:18. > :09:22.are now in a position where we have an opportunity to refurbish this
:09:22. > :09:28.property and put it back on the market as a let property. He is not
:09:28. > :09:34.just houses of significant historical importance? No, we look
:09:34. > :09:44.after everything. They are all- important to us. Wigan have a
:09:44. > :10:01.
:10:01. > :10:10.I think I will leave Tim to get on with the job. He knows what he is
:10:10. > :10:13.doing. Next week I will be heading to Ayrshire to visit a stone mason
:10:14. > :10:20.entrusted with the job of preserving the beauty of some of
:10:20. > :10:27.our most iconic castles. Still ahead, Glen Prosen's role in the
:10:27. > :10:30.Antarctic adventure 100 years ago. Scott, when he was planning his
:10:30. > :10:37.second exhibition, he had to discuss things with my great uncle.
:10:37. > :10:47.A lot of the scientific work was planned right here. And I face my
:10:47. > :10:51.
:10:51. > :10:55.fear of oysters. Straight away, you Last winter, we experienced some of
:10:55. > :11:02.the worst storms in more than a decade. Trees fell through routes,
:11:02. > :11:07.crushed cars and closed roads. The trees were cleared up pretty
:11:07. > :11:15.quickly by the emergency services. For the forests, the emergency
:11:16. > :11:25.operation has only just begun. The headlines: Red Alert, a violent
:11:26. > :11:33.
:11:33. > :11:39.Growing a Forest takes time and dedication. It can be decades
:11:39. > :11:49.before the trees reach maturity. But just one big storm can destroy
:11:49. > :11:53.
:11:53. > :11:58.This winter, not one but two ferocious storms caused massive
:11:58. > :12:03.damage across the country. For the Forestry Commission, with more than
:12:03. > :12:08.1 million acres of trees to manage, dealing with the aftermath has been
:12:08. > :12:18.a major task. The biggest impact through the central belt of
:12:18. > :12:21.
:12:21. > :12:26.Scotland and to the north. Over one evening in January we lost about
:12:26. > :12:30.80% of our production. What we would normally fell in one year
:12:31. > :12:40.blew over in one night. We had already lost trees in the storms in
:12:41. > :12:43.
:12:43. > :12:50.I am going across the country to assess the scale of the damage. I
:12:50. > :12:56.need one of these. As you can see, we are well in the air. You can get
:12:56. > :13:01.the most visual impact of the damage. It is pretty dramatic. The
:13:01. > :13:07.Forestry Commission logging as we go along. Why do you have to do it
:13:07. > :13:11.from a helicopter? We were prepared for this storm. We got alerts from
:13:11. > :13:16.the Met Office. We knew there was a significant weather event on the
:13:16. > :13:20.way. We had staff who went out on the ground. We realised we had a
:13:20. > :13:28.pretty significant problem. The best way to get on top of that is
:13:28. > :13:32.to get into the air and get a good look from above. It is like a giant
:13:32. > :13:41.hand swept through the forest and knock everything down. It is
:13:41. > :13:45.devastation down there. There is quite a lot of damage. We have an
:13:45. > :13:50.area equivalent to 200 football pitches blown over in one night. We
:13:50. > :13:55.need to get a clearer picture of how much has blown over, what
:13:55. > :14:03.species have blown over and the volume we need to clean up. It is
:14:03. > :14:08.pretty dramatic. You get a much better impression from above.
:14:08. > :14:14.the damage has been assessed, the Forestry Commission can begin to
:14:14. > :14:20.co-ordinate the clean-up operation on the ground. This operation, how
:14:20. > :14:26.big is it? It is quite a large scale. It just means rearranging
:14:26. > :14:32.things and prioritising certain areas. Anything that has got
:14:32. > :14:39.adjacent roads to rip, access routes. Anything you utilities. We
:14:39. > :14:45.do it through that location. This was be quite a dangerous and
:14:45. > :14:51.Bernard? Trees can go down at any time! Yes, it is a dangerous
:14:51. > :14:55.environment. We're good in terms of health and safety. We're looking at
:14:55. > :15:05.letting the public in when they are ready to be let in. When we have
:15:05. > :15:06.
:15:06. > :15:11.But the forestry sector has been hard hit by no worst storm a normal
:15:11. > :15:20.one decade. With careful management, the choristers will recover and to
:15:20. > :15:30.nor was? Maybe better. If you have a comment about
:15:30. > :15:40.anything, or have a wonderful story, got us an e-mail... The weather at
:15:40. > :15:48.
:15:48. > :15:57.Dollarbeg it is cool, not bad for Good evening. What an unusually
:15:57. > :16:07.warm week? It is all change. Here is the lovely warm air. It is being
:16:07. > :16:17.shot down two of the week by call there. A cold front will sink so
:16:17. > :16:18.
:16:18. > :16:25.Torrance. When I say colder air, I mean closer to averages. Not too
:16:25. > :16:33.bad a weekend. There will be some sunny spells developing as we got
:16:33. > :16:43.through the day. The difference will be in those temperatures.
:16:43. > :16:46.
:16:46. > :16:56.Further north, colder still. It will feel much cooler. In Shetland,
:16:56. > :16:58.
:16:58. > :17:08.he even colder still. They may even be the odd light wintry shower.
:17:08. > :17:12.
:17:12. > :17:21.Cloudy picture, too. Winds, mainly moderate. Into tomorrow evening and
:17:21. > :17:31.overnight, we will see some clear spells. Temperatures will that down
:17:31. > :17:38.
:17:38. > :17:48.quite significantly. -- debt. On Sunday, a fairly similar picture.
:17:48. > :17:48.
:17:48. > :17:58.Drier and brighter in the south. It will turn colder again at the start
:17:58. > :18:00.
:18:00. > :18:05.of the week. On Monday, a cold front will sink southwards. Monday
:18:05. > :18:15.is a cloudy picture. As that fronts thinks southwards, we will see
:18:15. > :18:17.
:18:17. > :18:27.showers turning to Hill's know. As that front sinks south words, there
:18:27. > :18:29.
:18:29. > :18:39.will be more or wintry weather. It will be brighter and dry in the
:18:39. > :18:51.
:18:51. > :18:59.West. Wednesday, turning unsettled, Earlier in the programme, I visited
:18:59. > :19:06.Loch Ryan Oystery. In the year, net he and his going to try to force
:19:06. > :19:16.feed me. A new have need of oysters, as fresh as this, he it is a shame
:19:16. > :19:18.
:19:18. > :19:24.to kick them. You just don't know what you're missing. I appreciate
:19:24. > :19:31.most Scots are not overly fond of eating raw fish. This is simple way
:19:31. > :19:37.to cook them. This is a variation of oysters Rockefeller. I have
:19:37. > :19:45.spent rich enough plan. I will put some of that in the bottom of each
:19:45. > :19:55.shell. The oyster is returned to the shell and sits on top. This can
:19:55. > :20:05.be done in advance. It is good for entertaining. I will news some
:20:05. > :20:05.
:20:05. > :20:15.parsley, may get tables in. Some fresh red cup -- fresh breadcrumbs.
:20:15. > :20:37.
:20:37. > :20:44.Then some Parmesan. Next for the crumbs together. -- mix. I will
:20:44. > :20:53.saying that from next on top of the oysters. A little bit of seasoning,
:20:53. > :20:58.a touch of salt. Some freshly ground black pepper. I will sit
:20:58. > :21:08.them on a tree of sea salt so the state operate under the grill.
:21:08. > :21:18.Preheat the grill to a maximum. These will take about three minutes
:21:18. > :21:24.
:21:24. > :21:34.under the Gell -- and grilled. You would not eat them raw. I have
:21:34. > :21:41.
:21:41. > :21:50.cooked them. A bet of spinach, the oyster kit and no more. That is
:21:50. > :22:00.good. It is not a mouthful of C. There is that oyster flavour. This
:22:00. > :22:10.is a niche at the bottom. You have turned me around completely.
:22:10. > :22:12.
:22:12. > :22:19.Fantastic. 100 years ago or, yesterday, Captain Scott wrote his
:22:19. > :22:26.last diary entry. The heroic deaths of the team may have happened
:22:26. > :22:36.10,000 miles from Scotland, but we have been finding out about the
:22:36. > :22:37.
:22:38. > :22:43.connection with an Angus glen. Captain Scott's and doomed
:22:43. > :22:51.expedition is a story that has captured Hearts and imagination for
:22:51. > :22:59.centuries. -- a century. In 1912, Scott and four colleagues reached
:23:00. > :23:08.the North Pole only to discover -- South Pole that a Norwegian team
:23:08. > :23:13.had beaten them to it. The ship which to Captain Scott on their
:23:13. > :23:17.expedition connect Scotland to that great age of politics writ --
:23:17. > :23:27.exploration. Her connection to the Antarctic expedition does not end
:23:27. > :23:31.
:23:31. > :23:39.there. Dr David Wilson is a historian and the great nephew of a
:23:39. > :23:45.self-taught naturalist and artist who died with Scott in 1912. How
:23:45. > :23:55.did he become involved? Through the expedition. My great-uncle was
:23:55. > :23:57.
:23:57. > :24:04.drawing and painting in London Zoo. The President of the Zoological
:24:04. > :24:12.Society asked him to be involved. That was the first expedition. My
:24:12. > :24:16.great uncle was elected to make reverse journey. They had all kinds
:24:16. > :24:26.-- made all kinds of zoological discoveries. They became firm
:24:26. > :24:36.friends. Scott asked him to go back on the second expedition. He was
:24:36. > :24:37.
:24:37. > :24:44.the chief of scientific staff on that one. Before he left, Wilson
:24:44. > :24:54.spent much of his time in Angus. In 1905, he was appointed by the Board
:24:54. > :24:56.
:24:56. > :25:03.of Agriculture to research grouse. No one understood why grouse were
:25:03. > :25:13.dying in such large numbers. He spent four years looking for the
:25:13. > :25:18.cause of the grouse disease. It was down to a little threadworm. This
:25:18. > :25:28.was the birth of modern Ornithology. It took someone to come into the
:25:28. > :25:29.
:25:29. > :25:37.field and take powers watching the gross, watching how they behaved.
:25:37. > :25:41.It is said he was told by a halo of gross intestines and feathers. He
:25:41. > :25:47.leapt year because it was originally owned by his publishers.
:25:47. > :25:55.When he came here to do the grouse work, he stayed here. He loved
:25:55. > :26:03.being here. Captain Scott had to come here to discuss the expedition.
:26:03. > :26:12.A lot of the scientific work was planned here. What happened to his
:26:12. > :26:22.work, his research? He had not finished writing his reports. He
:26:22. > :26:23.
:26:23. > :26:28.carried on finishing the writing. He never actually saw the grouse
:26:28. > :26:38.disease Report. There would not be a growth industry if it was not for
:26:38. > :26:44.the gross commission's report. It is for that piece of work alone
:26:45. > :26:54.that he is remembered as one of their top 10 ornithologists than
:26:55. > :26:56.
:26:56. > :27:02.the world. One of Vettel Wilson's last letters home was to his
:27:03. > :27:05.publisher who have given him the use of the house. Annette, Wilson
:27:05. > :27:12.mentions how he was disappointed that he would never see his grouse
:27:12. > :27:22.work published. Even in those final days, he was thinking of all the
:27:22. > :27:25.
:27:25. > :27:31.work he had done here. If you are interested in finding out more,
:27:31. > :27:40.this series of a activities celebrating Wilson will be held
:27:40. > :27:50.until 22nd June. Next week, are we going search of sika deer. The a
:27:50. > :27:54.
:27:54. > :28:00.run that Bracken. Cattle and sheep brush line,.
:28:00. > :28:10.would involve people with the right background. And the craft of the
:28:10. > :28:13.