In the eight years since then, we have seen the human habitation in the glen rise by four houses with another three planned.
I was born alongside crofters who had been pushed down the glen in the clearances.
The red deer had got down into a glen and had gone in front of a car.
Future generations will have to live with a legacy of beautiful glens and valleys despoiled by ill-conceived private forestry developments.
Serious floods have occurred on many occasions, but the damage is not always so permanent as it was in the glens on that evil night.
The students at these universities are drawn from every corner of the country, the remotest glens and the humblest purlieus of the city.
It got away to a very good start, because before cattle and mankind were cleared away from the glens there were abundant cattle.
In those glens there is almost always an abundant supply of water to supply the power.