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Nature in its purest form: Photographing a White-tailed Eagle
birds sadly went extinct in Britain in the 1900s. More recently they were successfully re-introduced, starting with a small population on Scotland's Isle of Rum. Amazingly, David got close enough to see the eagle's tag - it had been tagged in Glen Nant...
Top 5 Winter Walks
wintry day is both calming and inspiring. Here’s our top 5 forest walks for when the temperature plummets and snow starts to fall… Lochan Uaine and Ryvoan, Cairngorms The turquoise waters of the Green Lochan never fail to inspire, and all the more so...
Achnabreac Short Story Competition: The Winner
100 entries submitted by budding writers aged 10 and over from across Scotland, it has taken us a while to read and judge all the fantastic stories submitted, but finally, this week, we can announce a winner. Tales to astonish... Before we introduce the...
Motorhome Touring Tips
Here’s some top tips from the Camping and Caravanning Club to ensure your trip is both enjoyable and responsible, especially if you’re just starting out. Be ready for the road First ensure you have the correct entitlement to drive your motorhome – check...
7stanes - mountain biking heaven
of Ae Glentress, near Peebles This incredibly popular mountain biking heaven is just an hour outside Edinburgh. It has challenging trails for the experts, as well as easy routes for beginners. Glentress Glentrool, in Galloway The trails here offer fun...
Celebrating International Women in Engineering Day 2020
by a ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ six months as a Recreation Engineer in the national team before discovering that 'west really is best' when I was welcomed into the amazing West Region team as Area Civil Engineer in 2019." Kim, Environmental and...
Preparing our forests for the future
But that's what forest planners are trying to do right now. We don’t know which tree diseases to expect in the future. All we can do is take action to mitigate the threat once it presents itself and then learn to ‘live with it’. Tree diseases such as...
Slow Burn: Charcoal production in Callander
Back in 2019, Forestry and Land Scotland partnered with the Callander Landscape Partnership to excavate and research multiple sites of charcoal burning found in Leny Woods. This initiative became the Leny Woods Community Archaeology Project and helped...
Time to incubate
It has been a very busy week on the main osprey nest in the Tweed Valley. The resident pair, Mrs O and SS have settled down together for the season. After laying an egg on Easter Sunday , Mrs O then went on to lay two more over the next few days. Egg...
Arran bridge work keeps school project on track
Scotland’s (FLS) South Region team has helped keep the wheels on Arran High School Mountain Bike Club’s plans to develop an all-weather skills trail facility at Dyemill Forest, Lamlash. Following a successful asset transfer request to FLS the Club...
Growing tall: trees being grown six times faster in vertical farm saving water and time
faster in a vertical farm compared to traditional outdoor sowing, in the first UK trials of their kind. Growing 40-50cm tall in just 90 days – something that in a field would take up to 18 months - the tree trials could potentially transform the...
Huge effort to save larch
plans by dealing with the disease in a reactive way. Graeme Prest, FLS Director of Land Management and Regions, said; “Like all other land managers in Scotland, we have been playing our part in working to control this disease. “With no known cure and...
Reminder of access impact as Leanachan North Face works begin
(near Fort William) from this week. There are two distinct phases of work. From May ’22 civil engineering works that will allow harvesting work later in the year will cause significant disruption to visitors on the roads. The harvesting – which will...
Stay for another night…?
stays. Stay the Night will run from Friday 1 April until 31 October 2022, full details including a list and location map of all the sites will be available online in the next few weeks. The participating sites will be spread across Scotland....
Common sense call as South Scotland forest clear-up continues
with the significant levels of storm damage in the forests we manage. It’s going to take months in some places to clear it all up but we are beginning to open up more recreational access. "We know people want to get back into the forest and we are keen...
New woodland survey shows strong support for more woodlands in Highlands
woodland is managed by FLS and it produces some 500,000 tonnes of timber each year, that’s used in housebuilding, fencing, pallets and numerous other uses. Forestry is one of the nature based solutions – alongside peatland restoration – that FLS is...
Forestry and Land Scotland begins to open forests to visitors in the north and west
it is also advising that many forests will remain closed as more high winds over the next few days increase the risk of more falling trees in vulnerable, storm battered forests. Simon Hodgson, FLS Chief Executive, said: “It is a mammoth task but we are...
Why we fell trees
the last several years, there’s barely a day goes by when the state of the climate and environment is not in the news. And we all know that trees are a large part of the solution to our over-heating planet. So why on earth would we cut any down? In this...
Watersports
a great way of getting close to nature. However, you should always be extremely careful near, and on, open water and take all precautions to ensure a safe trip. Check out our water safety page for more useful information. Soft paddling Slip quietly...
Slavery and human trafficking statement
Introduction Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 makes it a legal requirement for all commercial organisations with a turnover of £36 million or more to produce an annual Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement. Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS)...