{"id":451,"date":"2021-01-30T17:10:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T17:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glencruittencathedraloftrees.org\/?page_id=451"},"modified":"2021-02-08T13:09:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T13:09:09","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/glencruittencathedraloftrees.org\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"451\" class=\"elementor elementor-451\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c5ca19e elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"c5ca19e\" data-element_type=\"section\" 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former home in Broughty Ferry burned down.\u00a0Although in his sixties, he was a man of huge energy and soon started a programme of forestation over much of the estate which at the time was mostly moorland and rough grass.<\/p><p class=\"font_8\">Planting trees was a way of bringing the land into useful production, it was also a way of contributing to the replacement of woodlands lost to the nation through the demand for timber during the Great War.\u00a0 \u00a0Furthermore, it gave employment to local people, many of them ex service men recently returned from the trenches and in need of work.<\/p><p class=\"font_8\">As the years passed, Mackay noticed that the trees in one valley, a beautiful spot with a view towards Ben Cruachan, failed to flourish.\u00a0 Rather than abandon the area, he decided to redeem it by draining the land and and creating a &#8216;Cathedral of 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