Wednesday, 14 October 2020
Forestry and Land Scotland is urging visitors to Campsie Glen to follow the biosecurity ‘Keep it Clean’ advice and help slow the spread of a deadly tree disease. The Glen is one of several sites across Scotland that has recently been confirmed as having Phytophthora ramorum – commonly referred to as P. ramorum – which attacks and kills larch trees. The FLS team in the area is now working...
Tuesday, 13 October 2020
Anyone with an interest in how Forestry and Land Scotland’s Creetown LMP area, around 8 km south east of Newton Stewart, is managed over the next 20 years is invited to take part in a consultation and give their views. This next generation Land Management Plan includes details of how FLS intends to manage the site until 2030, and gives a direction of travel for the following 10 years to 2040. ...
Friday, 09 October 2020
Rural Economy and Tourism Secretary, Fergus Ewing, today welcomed the news that a major £12m tourism development has been given the go-ahead by The Highland Council. The Forest Holidays proposal for 50 eco-sensitive holiday cabins at Leanachan Forest - part of the Forestry and Land Scotland 20-year, £25million Nevis Forest Master Plan – will supplement and complement the existing holiday offe...
Friday, 02 October 2020
Forestry and Land Scotland has appointed a Head of Harvesting Support to provide strategic direction and practical support to FLS staff, partner organisations and customers on timber harvesting in order to achieve efficiencies within the forestry sector. Mark Crowley, who has enjoyed a career in forestry since graduating from Aberdeen University in 1996, will take up the newly created role at the...
Thursday, 01 October 2020
Forestry and Land Scotland’s Central Region team is drawing up long-term emergency plans to deal with the substantial spread of tree disease, Phytophthora ramorum, which attacks larch trees. The steps are being taken as a results of this year’s national tree health survey revealed that the Region has 120 potential new sites where the disease has been suspected - with 80 of them being in the C...
Friday, 25 September 2020
Forestry and Land Scotland’s (FLS) full scale field trials of a revolutionary new seed propagation and planting system have proved to be a huge success – achieving an almost 2000 percent increase in per person productivity compared with conventional methods. The trial at the FLS Newton Nursery (near Elgin), featured a new system called 'TreeTape', a modification of leading vegetable...
Thursday, 24 September 2020
Forestry and Land Scotland is inviting people to come and visit a local forest and get the maximum benefit of a walk, run, cycle or wheel in the woods. The invitation comes after new COVID-19 restrictions on visiting people at home came into effect. Simon Hodgson, FLS Chief Executive, said; “Not visiting friends and family at home for the moment is undoubtedly a difficult b...
Thursday, 24 September 2020
Forestry and Land Scotland is advising forest visitors to observe all safety signage and diversion signage when felling work begins in Dalbeattie forest at the end of this month (28 Sept). The work, which will affect an extensive area (18ha), is part of the local team’s planned commercial harvesting programme. Lesley Smith, FLS Communities & Communications Manager, for the area, said; “...
Tuesday, 15 September 2020
Forestry and Land Scotland is looking to help improve everyone’s enjoyment, minimise any future user conflicts and improve the natural environment in the Tweed Valley forests by setting out zones for different activities. The move is intended to support responsible access from mountain bikers, walkers and horse riders and to promote greater mutual understanding and consideration of other forest...
Friday, 11 September 2020
Forestry and Land Scotland’s North Region team is urging everyone to vote – before noon on 24 September - for another highland stalwart to become Woodland Trust Scotland's Tree of the Year 2020. The Lord President’s Oak, which stands in the middle of a railway bridge, is in the heart of Culloden forest and on the path to the famous St Mary’s Clootie Well. Laura McNally, FLS Area Visitor ...
Thursday, 10 September 2020
A partnership project in the Cairngorms National Park that seeks to secure habitat protection and improvements for six rare invertebrate species, has discovered shining guest ants in Inshriach Forest – after a four year gap! Last recorded at the Forestry and Land Scotland managed site in 2016, the rediscovery of the ants – and their appearance at three new sites across the National Park – p...
Monday, 07 September 2020
Forestry and Land Scotland is looking for new panel members for its Communities Asset Transfer Scheme (CATS). Launched in 2017 and following on from the success of the National Forest Land Scheme, the Community Asset Transfer Scheme (CATS) lets community bodies take on more direct responsibility for managing a parcel of Scotland’s national forest and land, where the community considers that it ...