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THE importance of chronicling history, culture and folklore of the Sliabh Aughty region for future generations has been emphasised by an East Clare historian. ....
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Bad management, no vision in the Slieve Aughty region Reporter: ); ); I have often driven from Portumna to Gort across the beautiful and vast, open space that is the Slieve Aughty mountain region. There are very few houses in this enormous place and a great deal of indiscriminate sitka spruce planting. My heart has often ached as I drove through as I could sense the lost potential and the lack of appropriate management of a special place. The lost potential relates to the tree cover and the lack of trails. If the people who manage this land changed the tree cover from the industrial mono-culture of the sitka spruce to deciduous trees (reasonably spaced out, like a natural forest) then the character of much of the region would be dramatically changed. Where once there had been conifer woodland which was impossible to walk through and which contained a barren floor, there would now be more light, more growth, more wildlife. A place which made you feel desp ....