Thursday, 07 July 2022
Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) is holding a drop in event at Lochgoilhead Village Hall (Wed 20 July, 3pm – 7pm) to give local residents the opportunity to find out how felling plans will affect fore…
Thursday, 07 July 2022
Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) is inviting the local community from Hartwood, Allanton and Shotts to come along discuss the area and help inform the design of a new woodland. Hartwood Home Farm was…
Wednesday, 06 July 2022
A spate of recent complaints about dogs has prompted Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) and Renfrewshire Council’s Wardens Service to remind dog owners of their responsibilities. At some woodland locat…
Tuesday, 05 July 2022
Culbin Forest will host an elite group of athletes this weekend (Saturday 9 July) as they chase down a place in the GB Orienteering Team ahead of two top-flight events. Around 30 athletes are vy…
Friday, 01 July 2022
Forestry and Land Scotland has teamed up with Network Rail to explore how they can better work together to manage the risks and challenges on land where they are neighbours. Access, harvesting and dr…
Friday, 01 July 2022
Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) is again asking visitors to its woodlands to avoid Scolty Woods so as not to cause any unnecessary delay to the efforts to open up the forest for safe access. The woo…
Friday, 01 July 2022
Forestry and Land Scotland’s team in Aberdeenshire and Tayside has completed a massive effort to gather the detailed data that will inform the complex planning of full-scale recovery work in its storm…
Thursday, 30 June 2022
Almost 150 community groups across Scotland are taking the opportunity to benefit their communities thanks to Forestry and Land Scotland’s (FLS) leading role in community empowerment. In its fifth an…
Monday, 27 June 2022
Forestry and Land Scotland’s Steep Ground Felling Programme along the A82 is the most technically challenging timber harvesting in Britain. Carried out on dangerously steep slopes immediately beside …
Friday, 24 June 2022
Forestry and Land Scotland is on the lookout for new forester for Arran. With the previous Forester, Andy Walker, having retired in March 2022, the local FLS team is keen to attract someone who is re…
Thursday, 23 June 2022
Environment Minister, Mairi McAllan, yesterday (Wednesday 22 June) viewed Climate Emergency adaptation first hand during a visit to Forestry and Land Scotland’s (FLS) steep ground timber harvesting si…
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
Forestry and Land Scotland has had to revise its improvement works at Aros Park, Mull, after inspectors have deemed the Alainn Tower unfit for purpose after discovering extensive rot within the struct…
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
As part of its bid to help halt biodiversity loss, Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) is calling on all visitors to its destinations to play their part and be mindful that forests are not there just for…
Friday, 10 June 2022
Forestry and Land Scotland is advising all visitors to its forest destinations to avoid touching dead or apparently dying birds. The call comes in response to increasing numbers of reports of dead bi…