Friday, 21 July 2023
Forestry and Land Scotland is working with CivTech to develop innovative approaches to improve the effectiveness of wildlife management and the health and safety of Wildlife Rangers. The fourth collaboration – part of the CivTech Round 9 – involves two projects, each worth up to £650,000, part funded by CivTech as part of their Innovate for Nature initiative. As well as lo...
Tuesday, 11 July 2023
From 10 July Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) will begin to hand over control of Glentress to ESO for the final site dressing and preparation for the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships event in August. The handover marks the completion of the first two of three phases of a major £6 million FLS investment in the Glentress Masterplan development that has facilitated The Championships event...
Thursday, 06 July 2023
Anyone with an interest in how Forestry and Land Scotland’s plantations in and around Dunragit village are to be managed over the next 20 years is invited to take part in a consultation and give their views. Encompassing Drochduil (a small commercial conifer woodland), Dunragit (a mixed broadleaf woodland), and Torrs Warren (a pine wood on the coastal sand dunes of the Solway Firth), the ...
Wednesday, 05 July 2023
Over 100 state foresters from across Europe visited Scotland last month (June) to learn how Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) is managing a host of forestry challenges. FLS hosted the annual European State Forest Association(EUSTAFOR) conference in Inverness and the Cairngorms with theme of the conference being “Working in Partnership at a Landscape Scale”. The event showcased FLS...
Tuesday, 04 July 2023
Forestry and Land Scotland is advising visitors to Carron Valley to avoid touching dead or apparently dying birds. The advice follows an apparent, but unconfirmed report of a number of dead gulls on an island in Loch Carron. Several birds have also been washed ashore. FLS Area Visitor Services Manager, Katy Mcgregor, said; “We are aware that a number of dead seabirds have been reported in the...
Wednesday, 28 June 2023
Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands, Mairi Gougeon, today (28 June) visited Forestry and Land Scotland’s (FLS) foundational £6 million Glentress Masterplan development to learn how it will bring a social, economic and tourism boom for the Tweed valley and the wider Scottish Borders area. Hailed as an exemplar project that will benefit local people and businesses, touri...
Tuesday, 27 June 2023
New measures to promote access and keep the public safe are to be trialled during Forestry and Land Scotland’s (FLS) next phase of storm damage clear-up at Kirkhill Forest. With work due to begin on 3 July and likely to take six weeks, FLS will put diversions in place to enable continued access to some areas of the Forest. However, additional measures will be in place in an a...
Monday, 26 June 2023
The café and bike shop at Glentress are to re-open for business this week after Forestry and Land Scotland pulled out all the stops to resurface the walkways around the buildings. The announcement comes after the team carrying out the work solved some unplanned technical issues and that had initially threatened to delay the businesses opening to the public. Both businesses wil...
Thursday, 15 June 2023
Forestry and Land Scotland is reminding members of the public that its Carron Valley MtB trails are to be closed until 31 December. The closure, effective from Monday 19 June, is to allow the safe felling and removal of trees around the trails. Advance warning has ben trailed on the FLS website since April, although the star date has not been determined until now. Katy McGregor, FLS’ Area Vis...
Wednesday, 14 June 2023
Forestry and Land Scotland’s (FLS) recent purchase of Ariogan Farm, just south of Oban, is set to see an expansion of woodland creation and forest activity yet with less disruption to local communities, residents and businesses. Sitting between FLS’ Cologin Forest (near Lerags) and the main A816 road, the purchase will allow the local team to further develop sustainable management of the exis...
Tuesday, 13 June 2023
At least 30 capercaillie hens attended leks in managed forests on Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) land in Strathspey this year, the most in years. The number of male capercaillies displaying on the leks was also up to 58 from 52 in 2020. This bucks the trend of the last few years and gives some hope for this endangered species. Ecologists from Forestry and Land Scotland...
Tuesday, 13 June 2023
Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) has contacted the police in Perthshire after a fire was started by an overturned disposable barbecue. The incident took place on FLS managed land on the shores of Loch Rannoch opposite Kilvrecht campsite. Several young men are reported to have arrived at the site by car and lit the barbecue that initial impressions suggest was later kicked over. Robin Lofthouse,...