Scotland’s Nature in Trust: The National Trust for Scotland and Its Wildland and Crofting Management

The National Trust for Scotland is the second biggest landowner in the country, and several of the properties it owns are very large and, rather than being centred round a historic building, are important as wildlife and countryside conservation areas. The main purpose of this book is to examine in detail the activities of the Trust on some of the Highland and Island properties and relate these to two important developments in the politics of rural Scotland. These are first the increasing level of involvement in local communities in decision making and secondly the issue of land reform and recent...