Friday, 04 December 2020
With felling work to remove diseased trees in Campsie Glen starting w/c Dec 14th , local residents and visitors are being urged by Forestry and Land Scotland to heed all safety signage and follow the ‘Keep it Clean’ biosecurity advice. The site is one of several sites across Scotland that was recently confirmed as having Phytophthora ramorum – commonly referred to as P. ramorum – which at...
Friday, 04 December 2020
Preparatory steps to get the hillside above the Rest and Be Thankful ready for woodland creation will begin later this month. Forestry and Land Scotland, which is working in partnership with Transport Scotland, is to start erecting deer fences that will protect the saplings of a range of tree species that are to be planted in to help maximise slope stability. Planting is intended to start in Sept...
Thursday, 03 December 2020
While many organisations claim they take the ‘long view’ not many plan a century or two ahead - but Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) does just that in its work to plant the forests of the future. Marking National Tree Week 2020, FLS said that it is on course to have planted 25 million new trees by the end of this planting season. Tree planting on this scale is at the core of the organis...
Wednesday, 02 December 2020
Forestry and Land Scotland’s West Region team is drawing up long-term emergency plans to deal with the substantial spread of tree disease, Phytophthora ramorum, which attacks larch trees. The steps are being taken as a results of this year’s national tree health survey revealed that the Region has 20 new sites where the disease has been confirmed. Of those, 12 have to be felled by the middle...
Wednesday, 02 December 2020
Forestry and Land Scotland’s Tyrebagger Christmas Tree booking system has been so popular that all of the approximately 3000 slots were allocated in just over a week after going live. Introduced this year to help keep people safe and to reduce the possibility of COVID-19 transmission at the Tyrebagger sales centre (nr Aberdeen), the system required people to pre-book a time slot where they coul...
Tuesday, 01 December 2020
Forestry and Land Scotland is inviting people in Dumfries and Galloway to take part in its development of a new Land Management Plan for Corriedoo – near St John’s Town of Dalry. The plan is concerned with 418ha of upland coniferous forest and focuses on sustainable timber production, increasing forest species diversity while also improving riparian connectivity. There are also proposals for...
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Forestry and Land Scotland’s team on Arran has teamed up with a local garden centre to make sure that residents can still buy their locally gown Christmas trees. With FLS’s Brodick office closed and staff still working from home, it looked as though the team wouldn’t be able to invite local residents to come along and buy a Christmas trees this year. But the Cladach Garden Centre has stepp...
Friday, 20 November 2020
Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) is urging all forest visitors to avoid lighting fires when out and about in a forest after assessing that a fire-damaged habitat of international importance will take generations to recover. The plea comes as the FLS team in the north east weighs up the consequences of a three week long fire that affected Culbin Forest at the end of September. The man-made sand d...
Friday, 20 November 2020
Forestry and Land Scotland is pushing ahead with work on a long awaited path at Glenmore that will help keep visitors to the area safe. With funding from the Cairngorms National Park Authority, FLS and SUSTRANS, FLS is carrying out the work on behalf of CNPA, which also secured the bulk of the funding for the £250,000 project from Visit Scotland’s (VS) Rural Tourism Infrastructure Fund (RTIF)....
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
Forestry and Land Scotland is inviting people in Dumfries to take part in the development of the Dalmacallan Land Management Plan. The plan is concerned with 701 ha of coniferous forest situated 3 km south east of Moniaive and focuses on sustainable timber production, climate change mitigation and conservation enhancement. There are also proposals for changing the species mix in the forest...
Monday, 16 November 2020
Residents on and visitors to Arran are being urged to help slow the spread of a fatal disease that affects larch trees as Forestry and Land Scotland’s South Region team prepares to tackle an outbreak on the island. Phytophthora ramorum, which can infect a range of host species, causes particularly damaging infections on larch trees. First found in Scotland in 2002, with infections on Scottish ...
Wednesday, 11 November 2020
Forestry and Land Scotland’s team in Tayside will not be opening the Christmas Tree sales centres at Inver and Kinnoull this year. With more and more outlets selling trees over the past few years, fewer people have been visiting the FLS centres in Tayside and they have become uneconomical to run. FLS’s Area Visitor Services Manager for the area, Robin Lofthouse, said; “The sales centres w...