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New team get behind Cashel campsite
local communities to enhance facilities and family friendly experiences, and provide local economic benefits. The team are all outdoor enthusiasts and are keen to bring their extensive hospitality and leisure operating experience to the sustainable...
Enhancing access for everyone
taken forward by improving paths and entranceways but also by actively promoting the use of woodlands and their benefits to all. We work with a wide range of groups, across different ages, abilities and backgrounds. On this page you can read about some...
Fantastic fungi: Foraging and sustainability
is one of the most fun and rewarding activities you can get up to in Scotland's forests. Not only do you get to see and hear all the wonders of the wild woods... you get to taste them as well! As our feature on foraging explains, there are some very...
Safety first plea as Beinn Ghuilean felling work resumes
Land Scotland (FLS) is appealing for help from the people of Campbeltown to keep a felling site at Beinn Ghuilean safe. The call comes ahead of the resumption of tree felling work (29 June) at Beinn Ghuilean – and is in response to vandalism at the...
Campsite Management Company Appointed To Refresh Speyside’s Glenmore Site
local communities to enhance facilities and family friendly experiences, and provide local economic benefits. The team are all outdoor enthusiasts and are keen to bring their extensive hospitality and leisure operating experience to the sustainable...
FLS seeks partners in bid to capture an additional one million tonnes of carbon
Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) is calling for corporate investors to help progress woodland creation and peatland restoration projects on land that it manages – and capture one million tonnes of CO2. The opportunities are spread across Scotland and...
Three Rs make for a great Easter break
to our 300 visitor destinations . “We want to make sure that everyone has as enjoyable a visit as possible so we are asking all visitors remember their three Rs. “Respect other visitors, local residents and our staff, and the countryside; behave...
Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos)
Golden eagles are the classic symbol of wild places. Scotland holds almost all the UK’s population of these magnificent birds, which glide over forest, moorland and mountain on long, powerful wings. Although they hunt mostly in open ground, forests are...
The Iron Age broch of Caisteal Grugaig
access to the sea. Defence is a secondary consideration when compared to the availability of good land. Brochs were essentially high-status self-sufficient farming units. The people who lived and farmed here grew oats and barley, and reared stock....
Knapdale land management plan
- Knapdale and Inverneill - which lie on the coast to the west of Lochgilphead. The local villages of Achnamara, Crinan, Tayvallich, Cairnbaan and Inverneill are all within or nearby the forest area. There are several highly popular recreational areas...
Meet the beavers of Knapdale
chosen for a very special project. The plan was to reintroduce a beaver population into the wild in Scotland, and scientifically monitor their impact on the environment. Thus far, it has been a huge success, providing huge amounts of data about these...
The little things: Alder Moth sighting at Dean Plantation
There are all sorts of creatures living in the forest, and not all of them are easy to spot. You have to keep a sharp eye out when having a look through the undergrowth, or you might miss something! What's more, even the less beautiful forest creatures...
Forest car parks set for phased re-opening
in line with current Scottish Government COVID-19 guidance. The re-opening will be carried out on a phased basis which will allow the majority of FLS car parks across the country to welcome back visitors. At this stage, most of the larger visitor...
FLS scoping out future forestry supplies
however anticipate the need to buy-in around 10 million trees per annum. In addition we will continue to buy tree seed - typically Scots pine, Norway spruce, Douglas fir and Alaskan Lodgepole pine – as well as ancillary goods, such as tree shelters,...
Steady progress being made in Arwen recovery at recreation sites
said; “We’ve made safe a lot of the easier to clear locations and are now turning our attention to some of the more challenging sites. “There will be several weeks of chainsaw work, followed by some trail repair work but we hope to have completed this...
Public urged to revise expectations of storm clear up
Region Manager, said; “It is incredible to think that almost overnight we were presented with a new list of jobs that normally takes us at least two years to get done. This on top of our other work. "There are also processes with clearing storm damage...
Help solve the problem of Scotland's wasted tree seed
Meeting the challenges of growing more young trees from seed will significantly strengthen Scotland’s contribution to tackling the climate emergency. That’s the premise behind a new Scottish Government ‘Innovation Challenge’ offering research and...
Biosecurity and you
other visitor to the woods, understanding and following simple biosecurity measures is easy. There are little things we can all do to slow the spread of anything harmful, and help keep our forests healthy and beautiful. Can you help us protect...
Winter Coats
colouring that blends with scrubland, rocks and heather, while in winter they put on a dazzlingly coat of white. This allows them to stay camouflaged in the snow and avoid predators, especially birds of prey. Whilst they can be found across the higher...
Settling into a routine
delivers the rest of the fish to Mrs O. The camera pointed onto the nest picks up when Mrs O is getting impatient and begins calling loudly to demand her share of the fish. When she takes the fish, she generally just hops off onto the perch to the right...