Friday, 19 November 2021
Forestry and Land Scotland is advising that there will be no Glentress Christmas Tree Sales Centre this year. With the first phase of work on the Glentress Masterplan underway there will unfortunately be no suitable location for the sales centre at the site this year. Lynne Mitchell from the FLS local team said; “The first step in the Masterplan is the demolition of some old buildings and cle...
Friday, 19 November 2021
Forestry and Land Scotland’s (FLS) Tyrebagger Christmas Tree Sales Centre (near Aberdeen) will again make use of the booking system introduced last year. Originally put in place at the height of COVID-19 restrictions, the system has helped ease congestion and improve safety for staff and visitors. Fiona Robertson, FLS Area Visitor Services Manager, said; “We are still very much aware that C...
Friday, 19 November 2021
Forestry and Land Scotland’s Fife based team is asking residents in Oakley (Fife) to help put a stop to vandalism in the area. The call comes after some vegetation at Blairhouse was deliberately set on fire and a culvert damaged. This caused a blockage that caused water to back up, which when the pressure had built up to a high level, was released and washed out the forest road. Yvonne Grieve...
Monday, 15 November 2021
Forestry and Land Scotland is preparing for felling work at Cologin Forest by Lerags, just south of Oban, in a bid to limit the impact of a deadly tree disease. Phytophthora ramorum, which mainly affects and kills larch trees, has no known cure or remedy and the only available response requires felling affected trees before the disease has a chance to move on to new sites. Forestry and Land Scot...
Monday, 15 November 2021
Forestry and Land Scotland is getting ready to fell diseased trees at a second site on Beinn Ghuilean (near Campbeltown). FLS has been served with a Statutory Plant Health Notice that requires that trees affected by the disease Phytophthora ramorum, which primarily affects and kills larch trees, must be felled in a bid to protect other trees from becoming infected. Felling is due to being in spr...
Tuesday, 09 November 2021
Forestry and Land Scotland is gauging market interest in visitor services at all of its key sites across Scotland. With potential opportunities for businesses of all sizes – including community enterprises - the Request For Information (RFI) aims to more clearly identify what stakeholders can offer, which will allow FLS to better define its requirements. FLS is the single largest provid...
Monday, 08 November 2021
Forestry and Land Scotland is consulting on a draft Visitor Strategy that will shape its visitor and tourism offering in years to come. FLS is aiming to increase accessibility and encourage and welcome a broader spectrum of local, national and international visitors and make the best use of its resources and the land that it manages as visitor attractions. As the single largest prov...
Friday, 29 October 2021
Forestry and Land Scotland’s ‘Stay the Night’ initiative allowing campervan and motorhomes to use 32 its car parks across Scotland for overnight stays is to end on Sunday 31 October. Originally established in 2020 at the height of the country’s emergence from COVID-19 lockdown, Stay the Night aimed to help alleviate pressure on honey-pot tourism sites and on local communities and business...
Thursday, 28 October 2021
Everyone knows that planting trees is vital for the effort for capturing carbon emissions and mitigating the impact of the Climate Emergency. But cutting down trees – when it’s part of sustainable forest management – is even more important, says Forestry and Land Scotland. Felling conifers to provide softwood for timber processors is all part of a sustainable forestry cycle - planting and ...
Monday, 25 October 2021
Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) is inviting Arran residents to take part in the development of the Merkland Land Management Plan. The 681ha productive forest lies just to the north of Brodick and is prominent in the iconic view of Goatfell as the Calmac ferry approaches Arran and from the Brodick seafront. Although it sets out a ten-year plan for the site (with a more general indication ...
Monday, 18 October 2021
Forestry and Land Scotland has begun the latest phase of its steep ground felling work at Loch Ness-side (Mon 18 Oct). The work at Grotaig, between Drumnadrochit and Invermoriston, will clear the mature conifer from the steep hillside to make way for the establishment of native woodland. The 100 year-old conifers need to be felled because they are at increasing risk of windblow and are of such a...
Monday, 11 October 2021
Forestry and Land Scotland is consulting on its new, three-year Corporate Plan (2022-2025). Setting out the organisation’s proposed direction of travel and priorities for the next three years, the draft plan describes actions and priorities that will contribute to the delivery of a number of Scottish Government priorities. The consultation will run from 11th October until 22nd November 2...