Clyde Valley Woodlands National Nature Reserve

The Clyde Valley Woodlands National Nature Reserve involves six separate forest locales in the Clyde Valley area of South Lanarkshire, Scotland. These locales are Cartland Craigs,Cleghorn Glen, Chatelherault, Falls of Clyde, Mauldslie Woods and Lower Nethan Gorge. Five of the six destinations, situated in and around the towns of Lanark, Lesmahagow and Hamilton, are assigned Sites of Special Scientific Interest as a result of the plenitude of local forest found inside them, and other uncommon vegetation.

Mauldslie Woods close Carluke has been depicted as a test expansion to the National Nature Reserve and has no other authority assignment. Some jeopardized species additionally exist inside the destinations. The most prime precedent is the Falls of Clyde, in which there are jeopardized peregrine birds of prey and uncommon tundra vegetation that has made due on a bluff face since the last Ice Age. Cartland Craigs and Cleghorn Glen are two particular segments of the Clyde Valley Woodlands NNR overseen by Scottish Natural Heritage. Cleghorn Glen was assigned as a National Nature Reserve in 1981 and Cartland Craigs was later included 1987. The Reserves include two profound canyons along the Mouse Water.