Wednesday, 17 April 2024
Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) is encouraging people in Fife and the central belt to help to control grey squirrels by participating in volunteer schemes that support landscape scale community action. Landowners or those who have a garden should consider controlling grey squirrels such as advocated by the Eastern Lowlands Red Squirrel Group. This is best achieved through live trapping and human...
Tuesday, 16 April 2024
An ancient elm tree that has stood alone in the far reaches of Glen Affric for hundreds of years is now the guardian over a new generation of its species. The wych elm – known as the Last Ent of Affric in homage to the tree-shepherds from Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings story and a former Scottish Tree of the Year – has been chosen to help in the fight against Dutch Elm disease. Thirty-five yo...
Monday, 15 April 2024
Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) is looking for willing helpers from the Mount Vernon and Broomhouse areas in Glasgow to join the Greenoakhill Volunteer Group. The new group, which will meet on the second Tuesday of every month, will give local residents opportunities to play a part in helping this urban woodland flourish. Recently established on a former landfill site by FLS, working in partner...
Thursday, 04 April 2024
Forestry and Land Scotland will begin tree felling operations next week on the steepest part of the hillside at Loch Ness-side. Part of FLS’ long-term steep ground felling work along the length of the A82, the next phase of work, which will run from April until the end of June, will see large trees being removed from a slope that in places is 80-90 per cent sheer. FLS Planning Manager Ian Alls...
Thursday, 28 March 2024
Aviemore and Glenmore Community Trust (AGCT) is to take over the Glenmore Visitor Centre and Car Park after a successful application to Forestry and Land Scotland’s (FLS) Community Asset Transfer Scheme (CATS). The scheme empowers community organisations to ask to take over publicly owned land or buildings that they feel they can make better use of for local people. The AGCT&n...
Thursday, 28 March 2024
With the Easter holiday about to start Forestry and Land Scotland’s (FLS) team at Glentress is stepping up a gear in anticipation of an increase in visitor numbers. Best known as one of FLS’ key recreation destinations in southern Scotland, Glentress continues to be a busy, working forest that is also accommodating the closing phases of the Glentress Masterplan development. With ...
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...