Recently I gave a talk to students from the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) about how volunteering works with the Woodland Trust. After this, we headed out for an enjoyable day's ancient tree recording in Glen Nevis, the beautiful glen below our highest...
Gwen Raes, Estate Ranger at Glen Finglas, the biggest site in the UK that the Woodland Trust owns, has shared these lovely thoughts with us: "The woods are waiting for you… Although close contact with people isn’t recommended right now, you can still enjoy a beautiful woodland...
Fingers crossed it won't be long now until our nest at Loch Arkaig will be occupied once again! The team who manage the camera, including Lewis Pate, our raptor expert, and the company who installed the equipment, went up on a snowy day to check...
Yesterday, as part of a three day regional gathering, RSPB offered their help to carry out some work in the Woodland Trust’s Glencharnoch Wood in the heart of the Cairngorms National Park. Over the course of the afternoon, 46 staff helped recreate open water...
If you'd like to brush up upon or learn new tree identification skills then this event is for you. We'll look at our Scottish native trees and also some of our non-native conifers. As an example, you'll learn how to distinguish between sessile and pedunculate...
Jim Low, our Kinclaven Bluebell Wood volunteer warden, guided walk leader and photographer, has sent us this photo he took last week of bluebell leaves appearing through the leaf litter already! Hopefully late frosts won't damage them too much and also that they don't flower so...
804 metres of path have been re-surfaced at our stunning Caledonian pinewood site at Carrbridge. This has all been set up and overseen by Ross Watson, our Site Manager for the north of Scotland. The 1.5 metre wide paths are surfaced with Geotex...
Come and record some of the big, old trees at Glamis with us to celebrate National Volunteers' Week. This will be the 4th year running that we have recorded trees in the 1st week in June, but previous years have been at Drummond Castle near Comrie. Only...
I am often asked by Scotland volunteers if we could run tree ID training, and indeed the tree ID workshop at our Scotland volunteering conference was the most popular, so we’ve listened and I'm setting up some events to do just that; one in East...
Carol Evans, Woodland Trust Scotland Director, has sent this Christmas message to all volunteers in Scotland: [caption id="attachment_14951" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Scottish Tree of the Year 2019 awards, held at the Scottish Parliament December 17th 2019, For those of you who don't know her, Carol is in...