Bonhill Quarry | Woodlands | G83 9DW
How to identify a Woodland? A woodland is a habitat where trees are the dominant plant form. The individual tree canopies usually overlap and interconnect, often forming a continuous canopy which shades the ground to varying degrees. However, woodlands are not just trees, depending on how much light reaches the ground through the tree canopy, there will be a vast variety of other plants. These plants include mosses, ferns, and lichens as well as small flowering herbs, grasses and shrubs. The different types of plants will encourage different types of animals ranging from herbivores to carnivores. The rotting wood and decaying leaf litter offer an alternative food source for a large variety of invertebrates and the quantity of dead organic material provide the ideal habitat for fungi and bacteria to flourish. Bonhill Quarry is only one of the many woodlands that can be found in West Dunbartonshire.
Important wildlife 7Ha. corridor linking Murroch Glen and the wider moorlands with the Vale of Leven.
Established in 2000, this young wood has 2+ miles of walking & cycling routes (and an option to continue onto the longer Pappert Hill walk).
The mixed wood provides food and shelter for wildlife including goldfinches and orchids
It is an important resource to the east of New Bonhill on the fringes of the Kilpatrick Hills