Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Forestry and Land Scotland is encouraging people of all ages and backgrounds to take a look at the opportunities it can offer through its rolling nationwide recruitment drive. The call comes as part of a push to address a national skills and labour shortage in the forestry and land based careers sector. FLS regularly advertises new roles and recently welcomed 49 new colleagues ...
Monday, 07 August 2023
Aberdeenshire road users are advised that major forestry works at Tyrebagger Forest, near Dyce, will see traffic management in place on the A96 and the B979 from 15th August. Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) in partnership with road network managers, AMEY, will clear wind-blown and unstable standing trees along the frontage of one of the regions’ worst storm-hit forests. ...
Wednesday, 02 August 2023
Forestry and Land Scotland has begun (27 July 2023) restoring 60ha of peatland at the Cairngorm Mountain Resort in Glenmore that will help put the vital mitigation work in the public eye. Situated adjacent to the resort’s top car park and with public paths all around, the visitors to the centre will be able to watch some of the operation’s progress and see fo...
Friday, 28 July 2023
Forests in Moray will be a hive of activity at the end of July as Forestry and Land Scotland once again plays host to the Scottish Orienteering 6-Days Event. Featuring five events between Monday 31 July and Friday 4 Aug, four of the five competition routes will be in FLS-managed Lossie, Roseisle and Culbin Forests. The bi-annual event (which last visited Moray in 2013) is the l...
Monday, 24 July 2023
Trials of a new technique that uses thermal imaging cameras to capture the occupancy of over 100 artificial den boxes in Galloway Forest, have yielded positive results. This spring, checks by a Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) team on the artificial nesting boxes to assess the local pine marten population, detected a number of baby pine martens (called kits) using the technique. ...
Friday, 21 July 2023
Forestry and Land Scotland is inviting residents living in communities in the Selkirk and Galashiels area to offer comment on proposals for the future management of Yair Forest. The Yair Land Management Plan (LMP) defines the management prescription for the next ten years (2023-32), and presents the vision for the long-term management of the area. The main management object...
Friday, 21 July 2023
Forestry and Land Scotland is working with CivTech to develop innovative approaches to improve the effectiveness of wildlife management and the health and safety of Wildlife Rangers. The fourth collaboration – part of the CivTech Round 9 – involves two projects, each worth up to £650,000, part funded by CivTech as part of their Innovate for Nature initiative. As well as lo...
Tuesday, 11 July 2023
From 10 July Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) will begin to hand over control of Glentress to ESO for the final site dressing and preparation for the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships event in August. The handover marks the completion of the first two of three phases of a major £6 million FLS investment in the Glentress Masterplan development that has facilitated The Championships event...
Thursday, 06 July 2023
Anyone with an interest in how Forestry and Land Scotland’s plantations in and around Dunragit village are to be managed over the next 20 years is invited to take part in a consultation and give their views. Encompassing Drochduil (a small commercial conifer woodland), Dunragit (a mixed broadleaf woodland), and Torrs Warren (a pine wood on the coastal sand dunes of the Solway Firth), the ...
Wednesday, 05 July 2023
Over 100 state foresters from across Europe visited Scotland last month (June) to learn how Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) is managing a host of forestry challenges. FLS hosted the annual European State Forest Association(EUSTAFOR) conference in Inverness and the Cairngorms with theme of the conference being “Working in Partnership at a Landscape Scale”. The event showcased FLS...
Tuesday, 04 July 2023
Forestry and Land Scotland is advising visitors to Carron Valley to avoid touching dead or apparently dying birds. The advice follows an apparent, but unconfirmed report of a number of dead gulls on an island in Loch Carron. Several birds have also been washed ashore. FLS Area Visitor Services Manager, Katy Mcgregor, said; “We are aware that a number of dead seabirds have been reported in the...
Wednesday, 28 June 2023
Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands, Mairi Gougeon, today (28 June) visited Forestry and Land Scotland’s (FLS) foundational £6 million Glentress Masterplan development to learn how it will bring a social, economic and tourism boom for the Tweed valley and the wider Scottish Borders area. Hailed as an exemplar project that will benefit local people and businesses, touri...