but for environmentalist alan watts and featherstone the very opposite is true thanks to centuries of overexploitation. we're up here on the high ground of gun dragon now and as you can see it's virtually treeless landscape but this would all been covered in forest in the past like almost all of the scottish highlands today there's only this one solitary pine left we call it the lone pine two kilometers in its nearest neighbor it's a miracle it survived the british empire needed timber to build ships and scottish landowners wanted space to graze their sheep if woodlands were planted at all they were just for commercial lumber single crop conifers to maximize profits. featherstone wants to restore what he calls the highland caledonian forest he's been campaigning for this ancient woodland for thirty years when he started he was mocked as a tree hugger. but he pressed on undeterred and calls his project trees for life. several hundred volunteers work and done dragon on a forty square kilometer state bought by trees for life nine years ago. they grow most of the trees native to the caled