At Glen Finglas (Brig o’ Turk, Callander, Stirlingshire) we're holding our annual “Light up your Lantern” event on 30th October (from 5.00 – 9.30pm) and we're looking for volunteers to have fun in the dark! We would like a few creative volunteers that love to exhibit...
We are delighted that visitors to the Trust's Dunollie Wood have found hazel glove fungus - an indicator of high quality temperate rainforest. The fungus was spotted by retired Countryside Ranger Richard Wesley during a recent visit to Dunollie by Lorn Natural History Group. Richard spotted a fragment...
An insect survey at the Trust's Loch Arkaig Pine Forest has recorded two species of fungus gnat previously unseen in Britain. Fungus gnats are a large group of tiny flies whose larvae feed on mushrooms and fungi. Boletina gusakovae is more usually found in Finland and Russia, and Mycetophila idonea in...
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...
Hello Loch Arkaig ancient tree recorders! It seems like forever ago that we were scrambling across the hillside in search of Arkaig’s ancient trees. Thank you so much for all that came to help us record an impressive 80 trees, which revealed a special mix of...