Stoneymollan Road Wood | Woodlands | G83 8QU
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. Stoneymollan Road Wood is only one of the many woodlands that can be found in West Dunbartonshire.
A viable-sized woodland of 10Ha, many examples of old Oak trees with path connecting to the John Muir Way.
Upland Oakwood. Many Old oaks Beech now mature and naturalising.
Moderately good structure for woodland breeding birds and invertebrates.
A significant part of a network of woodlands including the Alexandria woods, the A82 verge and blocks of adjacent mixed plantation.
Patches of oak-birch woodland, and the presence of many large mature oaks.
Great views across Loch Lomond and towards Ben Lomond, stunning.