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Basil Matthew Stuart Dunlop is a Chartered Forester, FICFor (Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Foresters) and author who lives near the Scottish, Highland town of Grantown-on-Spey.

He was the Chief Forester of the Seafield (Strathspey) Estates, which included the (then named) Abernethy Forest Estate, from 1965 to 1983 when he started Forest Conservation Services (a forestry consulting business). He has written widely on the subject of forestry and forest conservation including contributions to the journals of the Royal Scottish Forestry Society and the Native Woodland Discussion Group.

Recognised as a forestry expert, in 1988 he was commissioned by the RSPB to write 'The Future Management of the Abernethy Forest Estate as a Nature Reserve' following their purchase of the estate.

Other Activities

His other activities include being a member of Highland Regional Council from 1988 to 1996. In 1996 he was appointed Justice of the Peace, at the  Kingussie District Court. Since then he has also been a member of the Council of the  National Trust for Scotland from  1996 to 2002, and a board member of the Cairngorms National Park Authority from 2003 to 2007.

Publications

The natural regeneration of Scots pine, Royal Scottish Forestry Society, Scottish Forestry, 1983
The Future Management of the Abernethy Forest Estate as a Nature Reserve, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, 1988
Pressures on the forests of the Cairngorms, in Caring for the High Mountains : Conservation of the Cairngorms, [Editors : J Conroy, Adam Watson, A Gunson], Centre for Scottish Studies, 1990
Native Woodlands of Strathspey : Report No33, Scottish Natural Heritage, 1994
The native woodlands of Strathspey, in Our Pinewood Heritage, [Editor : J Aldhous], (Forestry Commission, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Scottish Natural Heritage), 1995
The Woods of Strathspey in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, in Scottish Woodland History, [Edited : T C Smout], Scottish Cultural Press, 1997
Managing the Pinewoods of Scotland, (Forestry Commission, Scottish Natural Heritage), 2004