Thursday, 28 March 2024
Visitors to Glen Affric, one of the most beautiful places in Scotland, will be able to enjoy their experience even further following upgrades to facilities. Forestry and Land Scotland along with local contractors have worked to improve two viewpoints at Dog Falls, increase the capacity of the visitor car park, install a new year-round toilet and upgrade paths in the area. &...
Monday, 25 March 2024
Local schoolchildren visited Munlochy Clootie Well this week (Wed 20 March) to learn a little bit about local history and culture as well as how to help protect the environment. The pupils from Munlochy and Tore Primary Schools joined Forestry and Land Scotland rangers and environmental arts worker, Gordon MacLellan, for a day of activities. The children spent the morning making biodegrada...
Wednesday, 13 March 2024
Forestry and Land Scotland is calling on members of the public, communities and businesses to take part in consultations for the development of new plans for Dalbeattie Forest’s visitor facilities. The latest series of workshops follow on from the recent drop-in sessions held in Newcastleton – for the local forest – where a diverse range of forest users including horse-rid...
Friday, 08 March 2024
Forest Holidays has this month signed a lease with Forestry and Land Scotland that will mean work can begin on constructing 50 nature sensitive holiday cabins in Nevis Forest near Fort William. The £21 million cabin location is one of the key elements in the 20-year Nevis Forest Masterplan, which aims to create a world class visitor destination that amplifies and builds on Lochaber’s rep...
Thursday, 07 March 2024
Specialist construction company, Bedrock Buildings, is preparing the logs at its workshop and is anticipating beginning work in the early summer to construct the building on a plot of land in the village of Tomich. The log work (peeling, scribing cutting and assembly) takes place mostly in the workshop and yard, ahead of a short (2-3 day) assembly on site after which the roof, floors and window...
Tuesday, 05 March 2024
Forestry and land Scotland (FLS) is reminding forest visitors that the path at Conic Hill, Balmaha on the east shores of Loch Lomond, is currently of limits for public safety reasons. The reminder comes in the wake of increasing reports of members of the public actively ignoring signage and choosing to try and walk the path that has been blocked by windblown trees. It is anticipated that the pat...
Monday, 04 March 2024
Forestry and Land Scotland has set 10,000 hectares of peatland – on land it manages – on the road to recovery through ‘re-wetting’ sites. This significant milestone has been reached through years of dedicated work undertaken by FLS staff and contractors working on sites across Scotland – including at Kintyre and Lochaber in the west, Carnwath and Flanders Moss in central Scotland and Sk...
Monday, 26 February 2024
Communities and local businesses in the south of Scotland are being encouraged to come along to a series of workshops and have their say on the development of new plans for Forestry and Land Scotland’s (FLS) mountain bike trail centres - known as the 7stanes. FLS is looking to mirror the successful delivery of the Glentress Masterplan by setting out the future of the remaining...
Monday, 26 February 2024
Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) has worked with a local contractor to give a pond in Galloway Forest Park a dragonfly-friendly makeover. FLS had identified the pond as an area of importance for dragonflies and earmarked it for improvement under its land management plan for the area. Unfortunately, someone illegally added fish to the pond around 2013 and work couldn’t proceed until it wa...
Wednesday, 21 February 2024
Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) is urging walkers on the West Highland Way and the Rob Roy Way to observe all safety signage and follow on-site instruction as harvesting work begins at key locations in Garadhban Forest (north of Drymen). Road users and cyclists using National Cycle Route 7 are also being advised that traffic management is in place that might result in short but unavoidable delay...
Thursday, 15 February 2024
Kevin Quinlan, current Director of Environment and Forestry (EnFor) with the Scottish Government, is to take up a new role as the Chief Executive of Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS). Mr Quinlan will take up the reins in April 2024, following the retirement of current CE, Simon Hodgson. Mr Quinlan, said; “I am honoured to be given the opportunity to lead Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS). FLS i...
Wednesday, 14 February 2024
Two more beavers have been released at Knapdale to help consolidate the population and strengthen the beaver community’s chance of breeding success. The latest releases, a translocation of animals from Tayside as licensed by NatureScot, was facilitated by Forestry and Land Scotland and the Beaver Trust, and follows on from the release of six animals last month. Dr Roisin Campbell-Palmer, Head ...