One site has become so packed with tributes that it prompted an intervention from a local council
BEAUTY spots like Skye’s Fairy Pools are increasingly being used as sites for memorials to the dead, with one near Forres becoming so packed with tributes it prompted an intervention from the local council.
“We understand people’s wish to celebrate the lives of loved ones, especially at the places that meant most to them,” said a spokesperson. “We are fortunate enough to manage many special places and wild landscapes that mean a great deal to many people,” he said.“Unfortunately, because they are so well-loved, bereaved families sometimes do leave memorials, which if they were not managed would result in many locations soon losing their special appeal to other visitors. For this reason, we ask people not to leave memorials at the destinations and forests in our care.
“While we sympathised with residents who wanted to use this special place to remember loved ones, this popular location for memorial trees, flowers and plaques was becoming over-populated by these tributes and they risked harming the beauty spot,” said a spokesperson. Mountaineering Scotland said that while it sympathised with the grief and loss that friends and relatives felt, it did not believe permanent memorial artefacts should be a feature of the mountain landscape.
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