Tuesday, 18 August 2020
Forestry and Land Scotland’s team in Aberdeenshire has been giving nature a hand by re-spacing trees that have, through natural regeneration, started to repopulate a recently felled site. The c…
Monday, 10 August 2020
Forestry and Land Scotland is putting its shoulder to the wheel to help the national effort to control the spread of Phytophthora ramorum by carrying out surveys around the affected larch sites that i…
Friday, 07 August 2020
A washed out road in the South Loch Avich area threatened to derail essential harvesting work – until Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) civil engineers recycled a bridge! Essential harvesting wo…
Tuesday, 04 August 2020
The constant supply of timber required to support the national COVID-19 effort has seen Forestry and Land Scotland’s civil engineering team hard at work to keep harvesting work on track. Harvesting w…
Friday, 31 July 2020
Forestry and Land Scotland’s (FLS) work to restore an Aberdeenshire peatland is already paying dividends with the successful establishment of a white carpet of bog cotton – and the arrival on site&nbs…
Friday, 17 July 2020
Forestry and Land Scotland’s team at the Newton Tree Nursery (near Elgin) have caught up with their lockdown-delayed work and completed their seed sowing operations that will ensure a supply of future…
Thursday, 16 July 2020
Forestry and Land Scotland has launched an exciting funding opportunity for budding entrepreneurs and innovators - to come up with ways to better analyse and measure forest trees. A better understand…
Tuesday, 14 July 2020
As Scotland’s tourism sector officially re-starts under the Scottish Government’s Phase 3 route map measures, Forestry and Land Scotland has pulled out all the stops to support the sector’s recovery a…
Friday, 10 July 2020
The Forestry and Land Scotland team behind the steep ground felling along the Loch Ness-side A82 is keeping its hand in as the programme is adjusted after COVID-19 lockdown. No felling will take plac…
Wednesday, 08 July 2020
With the COVID-19 five mile travel restriction now lifted, Forestry and Land Scotland has been joined by land managers, environmental experts and campaigners in calling on the Scottish public to …
Friday, 03 July 2020
Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing has branded the decision by Camping in the Forest (CiTF) to keep all their campsites closed for the remainder of the year as “totally unacceptable”. Scottish Mini…
Thursday, 02 July 2020
Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) is starting to open its forest car parks from Friday 3 July onwards, in line with current Scottish Government COVID-19 guidance. The re-opening will be carried out on…
Friday, 26 June 2020
A Scottish Government Civ Tech Challenge launched by Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) has helped create an award winning business that could benefit forestry around the world. The FLS challenge – to …
Thursday, 25 June 2020
Forestry and Land Scotland’s (FLS) approach to creating a master plan for development at Glentress has been hailed as an example of ‘how it should be done’. The FLS case study is one of 11 in a new S…