Thursday, 21 December 2023
To celebrate our archaeological learning resource The Bare Bones being nominated in the Current Archaeology Awards 2024 ‘Research Project of the Year’ category, we thought that we would shine a light …
Wednesday, 20 December 2023
Allan MacDougall has been awarded the Imperial Service Medal for 48 years of dedicated service. Allan was awarded the medal at Glenmore Forest Park after retiring last year. Working in Glenmore s…
Monday, 11 December 2023
A new glasshouse will soon be added to our nursery near Elgin. The building will be around the size of two football pitches and capable of growing up to 19 million trees a year. This exciting addit…
Wednesday, 15 November 2023
Is the humble field vole the Cairngorms' most important mammal? As unassuming as they might seem, field voles play a key part in the food chain and their numbers can have a huge impact on protected sp…
Wednesday, 15 November 2023
The broch of Caisteal Grugaig is a unique structural ecological niche situated in an area of amazing Atlantic Rainforest. Could one of the finest brochs in Scotland be a home to biodiversity, just as…
Monday, 13 November 2023
In November 1923, only four years after the establishment of the Forestry Commission, Glenmore was purchased from the Duke of Gordon. 2023 marks 100 years of public ownership of this much-loved place.…
Monday, 06 November 2023
Glenmore was purchased from the Duke of Gordon in 1923, only four years after our predecessor, the Forestry Commission, was established. Since then, the area has been a hive for recreation, conservati…
Thursday, 02 November 2023
The stone circle of Na Clachan Aoraidh – the ‘Stones of Worship’ – is set high on the limestone ridge of Cnoc na Craoibhe above Loch Tummel. Grid reference: NN 8386 6200 The site is an unusual ‘fo…
Wednesday, 25 October 2023
A breeding pair of white-tailed eagles has set up home in a Caithness woodland. The birds, thought to be the first successful breeding pair in the area for almost 100 years, were found nesting i…
Wednesday, 18 October 2023
Last month, pine marten experts from around the world attended the Eighth International Martes Symposium in Aviemore. With an estimated population of just 3700, pine martens are a protected s…
Tuesday, 19 September 2023
As one of the partners in Cairngorms Connect, we've been carrying out enrichment planting of native broadleaves across Glenmore Forest Park. Over the summer, alongside Cairngorms National Park Volunte…
Thursday, 14 September 2023
We recently hosted a BBC news crew to several of our forests to film a segment on protecting Scotland’s wildlife. The package – which included interviews with two of our staff members – aired on BB…
Thursday, 14 September 2023
Our staff in North Region have been working all summer to grow a wide range of wildflowers that should help boost numbers of a rare species of bumblebee and other pollinating insects. T…
Thursday, 31 August 2023
People planning to head out to forests this autumn to try their hand at ‘foraging’ – to pick wild mushrooms – are being urged to ‘be sure what you’re picking and pick only what you need’. We're findi…