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Tracts of heather are very often burned-off in the Highlands, and the
new growth soon springs up from the roots.

The new growth of heather is from rapid seed germination on the burned
ground. That's why it's so dense.

And roots - I've been involved with the process in the Monadhliath
Mountains in Invernesshire and on the Isle of Lewis.

The trouble is with burning, it has to be done when the wind is fairly
strong and in the right direction: if the wind isn't strong enough to
'flash' burn the heather, you don't get the seeds surviving, (nor a lot
of the roots), and if the wind's in the wrong direction you could set
Scotland ablaze from stem to stern. (ish)

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Rusty
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