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Registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation Number 1155775
SWAAG Honorary President:
Tim Laurie F,S,A,

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 *****SWAAG_ID***** 336
 Date Entered 16/11/2011
 Updated on 05/12/2011
 Recorded by Tim Laurie
 Category Tree Site Record
 Record Type Botanical HER
 Site Access Private
 Record Date 13/11/2010
 Location Whitsundale How Edge Scars Lower Section from Cop Gill down to Caveside Gill
 Civil Parish Muker
 Brit. National Grid NY 8675 0245
 Altitude 400m
 Geology Stream cut ravine through Namurian sandstones and mudstones with tufa forming springs above the east bank of the stream.
 Record Name MUK120 How Edge Scars. Lower Section. Type B Generally acidic vegetation but with tufa springs above stream. Aspen Clones and Juniper.
 Record Description Native oak (Qu.robur) birch (B.pubescens) woodland with very extensive cloned aspen grove on eastern bank and two isolated juniper bushes on outcropping rock at the top edge of the eastern side of the ravine. Eared sallow(S. aurita)present. Generally acidic vegetation but with local enrichment from tufa forming springs on eastern bank. See L.R. Plant List.
 Dimensions See photographs.
 Geographical area Upper Swaledale
 Species Aspen, juniper, pedunculate oak, eared sallow.
 Additional Notes The native woodland at How Edge Scars is perhaps the best example of native woodland once widespread across the open moorland of Upper Swaledale. The seperate populations of aspens located on the eastern slopes at the lower and upper parts of the ravine and on the north facing cliff at the top of the ravine on the westside of the stream are of special interest as are the scattered junipers and above all the uniquely interesting overhanging tufa formation on the cliff at the top of the ravine colonised by non-flowering plants, mosses, lichen, algae and diatoms. Colonies of stone bramble,oak and beech fern also present. Upper (MUK121) and Lower Parts (MUK120) of the ravine recorded seperately to allow seperate presentation of the isolated junipers and aspen groves.
 Image 1 ID 1292         Click image to enlarge
 Image 1 Description How Edge Ravine, view from Caveside Gill upstream.
 Image 2 ID 1293         Click image to enlarge
 Image 2 Description How Edge Ravine, juniper and aspen. Caveside Gill.
 Image 3 ID 1294         Click image to enlarge
 Image 3 Description How Edge Ravine, aspen grove. Caveside Gill. Oak and birch on far bank.
 Image 4 ID 1296         Click image to enlarge
 Image 4 Description How Edge Ravine, oak woodland on west bank.
 Image 5 ID 1297         Click image to enlarge
 Image 5 Description Caveside Gill. Frozen.
 Image 6 ID 1298         Click image to enlarge
 Image 6 Description View of aspen grove at Caveside Gill from west bank.Winter.
 Image 7 ID 1299         Click image to enlarge
 Image 7 Description View of aspen grove at Caveside Gill from west bank.Winter.
 Image 8 ID 1300         Click image to enlarge
 Image 8 Description Caveside Gill from west bank.Winter.
 
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