Identification

Title

West of Scotland Pest Free Area Buffer Zone

Alternative title(s)

Conifer Bark Beetle Pest Free Area Buffer Zone

Abstract

The West of Scotland conifer bark beetle Pest Free Area (PFA) exists to allow trade of conifer logs to Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, which are currently free from and have Pest Free Zone (PZ) status for the bark beetles Dendroctonus micans, Ips cembrae and Ips sexdentatus. These three non-native bark beetles are all established in Great Britain (GB). As the bark beetles continue to spread, Scottish Forestry is imposing a 35km radius buffer zone around any finding of an outbreak of D. micans, within which no further phytosanitary certificates will be issued for the movement of spruce roundwood to the island of Ireland. There will also be restrictions on any port in the buffer zone. This dataset shows that part of the PFA which is within this buffer zone. The buffer zone boundary follows recognisable geographic features on the ground, such as roads and rivers. This results in an uneven boundary with parts being further than 35km from the finding, but will never be less than 35km away. If there are further findings of D. micans within 35km of the PFA, the buffer zone will be extended accordingly. Once the buffer zone has been established for 12 months there will be a presumption to expand the buffer by a further 10 km. The final decision to make this change will be agreed between Scottish Forestry and the relevant authorities on the island of Ireland. Find more information at https://www.forestry.gov.scot/publications/1546-pfa-action-plan

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://open-data-scottishforestry.hub.arcgis.com/

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: Scottish Forestry Open Data

description: Data download site

https://forestry.gov.scot/sustainable-forestry/tree-health

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: Further Information and Notices

description: Scottish Forestry Tree Health webpage

Unique resource identifier

code

S_TH_West_Scotland_Pest_Free_Area_Buffer Zone

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

authority code

EPSG

code identifying the spatial reference system

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700)

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

farming

biota

economy

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Forest Management

Tree Health

Planning

Environment

Restrictions

Woodland

Forestry

Plant Health

Keyword set

keyword value

Land use

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.80

East bounding longitude

-0.71

North bounding latitude

60.87

South bounding latitude

54.63

Extent

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2007-12-13

code identifying the extent

GB-SCT

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2024-03-01T12:00:00

date type

revision

effective date

2024-03-01T12:00:00

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Where appropriate, the boundary follows the West of Scotland Pest Free Area boundary. The internal boundary is captured by tracing relevant features from the OS Open Rivers and OS Open Roads datasets where appropriate, and following landforms in other areas. The boundary will always follow features which are recognisable on the ground.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

false

explanation

Data format

name of format

ESRI Shapefile

version of format

1.0

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

No limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Please ensure that the following acknowledgement is displayed on any hard copy: Data provided by Scottish Forestry [year].

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Head of Geo-Information Services

organisation name

Scottish Forestry

full postal address

Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive

Edinburgh

EH11 3XD

United Kingdom

email address

geoinformationservices@forestry.gov.scot

responsible party role

publisher

Responsible party

contact position

Head of Operational Delivery

organisation name

Scottish Forestry

full postal address

Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive

Edinburgh

EH11 3XD

United Kingdom

email address

geoinformationservices@forestry.gov.scot

responsible party role

owner

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

Head of Geo-Information Services

organisation name

Scottish Forestry

full postal address

Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive

Edinburgh

EH11 3XD

United Kingdom

email address

geoinformationservices@forestry.gov.scot

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2024-08-15T10:20:19

Metadata language