The impact of climatic change thousands of years ago and subsequent impacts by man keep trees from much of the Scottish landscape. But a forest thrives in Scottish Gaelic. Each Gaelic letter's name is also a tree or shrub. The scrambled word is the English translation of the tree representing the Gaelic letter. Try each of these two "wild card" searches: *beith and *fearn at the map link below. Cha lčir dhut a' choill leis na craobhan. Look closely at Scottish place names, you can see the forest for the trees!
If you would like to look up the placenames answers on a map go here and type in the name under UK placenames.
More puzzles can be found at Scotland Puzzle in the archive.
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