Friday, 27 August 2021
Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) is to carry out a cull of female deer in September as it manages increasing levels of negative impact from deer in Scotland’s national forests. Deer numbers across Sc…
Wednesday, 25 August 2021
Forestry’s central importance to Scotland’s journey to Net Zero was the focus of a visit to a brownfield restoration site today (24 August) by Màiri McAllan, Minister for Environment, Biodiversity and…
Tuesday, 24 August 2021
Scotland must seize the opportunity to rapidly increase planting of productive forestry to offset the full impact of future timber supply shocks. Forestry and Land Scotland says that the UK as a whol…
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
A timber processor in Troon is creating 25 new jobs thanks to a new contract awarded to them by Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS). The contract supports the introduction of a third shift at Alexanders…
Tuesday, 10 August 2021
Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) is advising climbers and hillwalkers coming to the Ballachulish area to check their plans against some access restrictions arising from delays to planned felling works…
Wednesday, 28 July 2021
Forestry and Land Scotland is advising members of the public that there will be no public access to Durris, Fetteresso and Drumtochty Forests on Friday 13 and Saturday 14 August. The restri…
Friday, 23 July 2021
Surveys in Cowal to detect whether a tree disease deadly to larch has spread over the winter have uncovered 60 suspected sites of new infection. Further testing will be carried out to confirm the pre…
Friday, 23 July 2021
Forestry and Land Scotland has underlined its commitment to deer management in Perthshire with a £250k investment in a new deer larder. The new facility, which will handle around 900 carcasses …
Wednesday, 21 July 2021
Forestry and Land Scotland is planning to expand its car park at Ben A’an later this year to help ease congestion at the hugely popular site. Supported by the Rural Tourism Infrastructure Fund, the w…
Friday, 16 July 2021
Forestry and Land Scotland is beginning to make preparations to fell 125,000 tonnes of timber from a hillside forest at east Loch Lomond-side that could take as long as ten-years to complete. A Land …
Friday, 16 July 2021
With a ‘very high’ fire risk warning in place over the weekend for Easter Ross and Moray, Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) is urging anyone thinking of visiting a forest to observe wildfire preve…
Friday, 02 July 2021
A weekend incident (26 June) which saw Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) staff verbally abused and environmental damage inflicted at a SSSI site has led FLS to call for greater public support in dealin…