We are looking for volunteers to help out this coming weekend at the fantastic annual Forest Fest that takes place at the Highland Folk Museum (HFM), Newtonmore, this year on Sat 11 & Sun 12 August. We've had a few people drop out so we are on...
Rachael Ashdown is a Gateway/eco research/woodland working group volunteer at Glen Finglas. She took some time to write about her experience: [caption id="attachment_5985" align="alignnone" width="300"] Rachael[/caption] "Volunteering at the visitor gateway at Glen Finglas has been a great way for me to learn about and get involved...
Liz Bracken has one of the most unusual volunteering roles in the Trust - she is our official osprey camera volunteer at Loch Arkaig. Liz lives on the opposite side of the Loch from our camera nest and can see it through a telescope from her...
The Royal Highland Show was blessed with four days of wall to wall sunshine and so was incredibly well attended. Our Woodland Trust stand was jam-packed with visitors and so having volunteers there to help out was incredibly helpful!...
Mix together 14 volunteers, great conversation, fantastic local food, sunshine, a H&S talk, a guided walk in Kinclaven Bluebell Woods, a Risk Assessment role play workshop, tree pruning training and fun on a swing and you have the recipe for a perfect day. Saturday 23rd June was our 3rd volunteer networking...
On Saturday 9th June, Glencharnoch Wood Woodland Wardens Roy Brown and Michelle Green and Site Manager Ross Watson, ran a small work party to continue the improvements on the paths in this beautiful Caledonian pine forest in the Cairngorms. 20 tons of material, transported into the...
One of the ways we celebrated National Volunteers' Week in Scotland was a mammoth ancient tree recording day at the beautiful Drummond Castle Gardens near Comrie in Perthshire. 22 of us, including 19 registered Woodland Trust volunteers, recorded over 450 trees! We recorded over a mile of incredible...
Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) Countryside Management HNC students from their Craibstone Campus on the outskirts of Aberdeen are using Den Wood for practical parts of their course. Over four sessions students will take part in a range of practical activities and surveying to gain key...
Site manager Jill Aitken runs an annual competition for students at the University of Dundee’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, to come up with a piece of work that will engage visitors at Moncreiffe Hill Wood just outside Perth. The competition gives...
On Sunday 29th April, members of the Woodland Trust Portmoak Moss volunteer Woodland Working Group joined forces with Butterfly Conservation Scotland's Bog Squad, to remove rejenerating birch from the highly biodiverse bog area of Portmoak Moss. There was a great turnout and removing encroaching birch will help to maintain populations...