Forestry

SRUC

A new course will teach people about the forest environment and its links to conservation

SRUC introduce new forest course at the Barony
A new course that will teach people about the forest environment and its links to conservation, has been launched by Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC).

Business owner Malcolm Morrison

Forestry Sawmill safety first and foremost

GMG Energy is a significant employer in its remote part of Sutherland

Far north sawmill invests in carbon reduction

SEPARATING COMMERCIAL forestry from trees planted solely for carbon capture should lead to greater use of broadleaves and native species

Carbon Code clamps down on forestry land 'gold rush'

Forestry Journal Scotland

Let's teach our children about trees – and forestry jobs

Shireen Chambers MBE

Tree-planting charity appoints new chief

TEAMS have been busy reopening access routes into forestry

Storm Arwen created team spirit in the forestry sector

New trees planted in woodland – but there is paperwork to navigate beforehand

Plan ahead for woodland grant scheme applications

IT IS generally acknowledged that establishing trees can be a challenge on typical croft ground

Extra cash encouragement for croft woodlands

Forestry Journal Scotland

Forestry Journal: Just how sustainable is our current situation?

Jim Ramsay at home on the hill at Milnmark – an upland home to his family's farming business and one that he would never want to see planted

Time to go back to the 'facts' on tree planting

Forestry apprentice at work

New apprenticeship programme offers a pathway into forestry

THERE IS concern that city money is buying up land assets for carbon credit projects with no interest in the well-being of surrounding communities and economies

ScotGov looks towards regulation of 'natural capital' market

Tree planting is driving land prices beyond the reach of farmers

PREMIUM SRUC report for Scottish Land Commission shows rocketing land prices – up 30%

Commercial status is vital if tax benefit is to be gained from new woodland planting

Forestry Commercial woodland still delivers tax advantages

Forestry Rothiemurchus ranger receives Tilhill forestry student award

THIS MONTH'S Forestry Journal Scotland

Forestry Timber is an essential crop too!

Whose tree is it anyway?

CLEARING UP after Storm Arwen

Forestry Foresters share windblow wisdom

The clear up operation after Storm Arwen is still ongoing

Forestry When is best to harvest toppled trees?

PROPER retrieval and storage are essential if hardwoods are to be useful for manufacturing

Forestry Storm-felled hardwoods are worth preserving

Tim Hall, chairman of Future Woodlands Scotland (Pic: Chris Watt)

£2 million support scheme expanded to help farmers create native woodlands

A cow enjoying some shelter - and possibly a scratch - from a tree at Howemill, near Huntly, run by James and Nikki Yoxall, winners of the 2021 Young People Award for Farm Woodland

'Tree Oscars' seek out Scotland's finest farm woodlands

RSPB reported that over 25% of Dumfries and Galloway is now afforested and has led to the loss of 5000 pairs of curlew in the region since 1950

PREMIUM Tree planting driving farm clearances and threatening rural communities

The right tree in the right place.

Opinion Is the current tree planting agenda threatening Scottish rural life?

Tree policy is driving rural depopulation, Kennedy warns

A CROFTING landscape under the Cuillins on the Isle of Skye

Crofters invited for chat about tree-planting

Tree planting at Forder Farm, Dartmoor, part of efforts to expand woodland as part of the Dartmoor Headwaters Pilot Project (Pic: Lloyd Russell, University of Plymouth)

Forestry Natural regeneration of native woodland needs some help

Forestry Journal Scotland, February 2022

Forestry This is no time to be precious about tree planting

The National Sheep Association believe that if executed in the right way, afforestation could improve the environment for grazing sheep, providing shelter, shade, and even adding to sheep nutrition.

Defra's tree planting drive welcomed by National Sheep Association

MORE TIMBER shipping by sea will help take the weight off Scotland's minor roads

Call for timber transport projects to be submitted

Fallen trees outside of Edzell, in Angus, this week, following a series of storms in quick succession (Pic: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Working group to help woodland owners clear up windblown trees

Since Beinn Eighe Natural Nature Reserve was established in 1951, about 800,000 trees have been planted – most have been Scots pine (pictured) as well as broadleaf species such as birch, aspen, holly, rowan and oak (Pic: Lorne Gill, NatureScot)

Forestry Woodland cover increases 41% at Beinn Eighe

STORM ARWEN had a huge impact on Scottish woodlands

Letter Open letter to Mairi Gougeon: Action needed for the fallen trees of Storm Arwen

SPOTTA'S pine weevil solution involves automated onsite monitoring of the pests' numbers

ScotGov funding secures tree pest solution

AGRIFOREST at work harvesting timber

Forestry It's a great time to have timber for sale

Native woodland creation at Selcoth

Selcoth presses ahead with its green plan

RUTHVEN HILLS (Pic: Lesley Simmons)

Tree planting is for tenants too

Land market upheaval under the spotlight

Young trees on moorland

Scotland has more than 80% of UK tree planting total

Felling and skyline work underway on the slopes above the A82

High time to thin out 'over-mature' conifers

The Highlands are currently home to approximately 350,000 hectares of forestry, representing around 13.5% of the land area

New survey shows strong support for Highland woodlands

Scottish Forestry has been tasked with increasing woodland cover in Scotland and have promised to ensure farm woodlands are a part of their plan, like here at Easter Bavelaw Farm, in Balerno

Scottish Forestry promises to plant the 'right tree in the right place'

Farmland cleared of people as trees take over

The new strategy will allow FLS to purchase land for commercial conifer or extensive native woodland creation, land suitable for peatland restoration and land that will enhance Natural Capital

Forestry and Land Scotland unveils land acquisition strategy

Storm damage to a plantation at Glentress

Forestry Forestry sector counts the cost of Storm Arwen

Phytopthora infection

Forestry New measures affecting the movement of timber in Loch Carron and Kyle of Lochalsh

A TREE snapped by Storm Arwen (Pic: Ben Clinch)

Forestry Stop and think before clearing trees in wake of storms

US competitor Jason Lentz has been crowned the 2021 Stihl Timbersports Individual World Champion after a night of 'elite logger sports action' at Motorworld Munich, Germany. Lentz edged out Canada’s Marcel Dupuis and Martin Komárek

Sawdust flies at chainsaw championships

Boris Johnson at 10 Downing Street to celebrate the Christmas lights switch on (Photo: Tim Hammond)

Boris Johnson thanks farmers during Downing Street Christmas Tree lights switch on

Forestry Action plan to unlock forestry income for small landowners

Forestry Journal December 2021

Forestry Educating the public about sustainable forestry

TO ESTABLISH, manage, and reap the benefits of a woodland project, farmers need to be judicious in their planning and robust in their risk management

Forestry Woodland planting – the risks and rewards

Average forestry land values are more than double what they were three years ago

New factors driving value of commercial forestry