We at Woodland Trust Scotland are shouting out from the rooftops about how proud we are of our volunteers in Scotland, and to congratulate all the award winners across the UK! I'll be posting more about each of our Volunteer of the Year Award nominees and winners over the next couple of weeks, about the amazing...
Jim Low volunteers at our beautiful Kinclaven Bluebell Wood as a Woodland Warden and a Woodland Working Group Leader. Jim is passionate about this stunning ancient oak wood and spends many a day observing and photographing the wildlife there. He has seen redstarts, spotted flycatchers, nuthatches,...
On the 14th of September, three hardy tree verifiers headed to Inchmahome Island on the Lake of Menteith, near Stirling, to record the spectacular ancient trees. David Alderman of the Tree Register of the British Isles has written a very enjoyable piece about their trip: The...
Earlier this year Nicola Hume volunteered with us at Glen Finglas, the Woodland Trust's largest's estate in the UK, and which forms part of the dramatically beautiful Great Trossachs Forest National Nature Reserve that stretches from the shores of Loch Lomond in the west to Kilmahog,...
The volunteer Woodland Working Group (WWG) at Kinclaven Bluebell Wood in Perthshire have made a start on removing Rhododendron ponticum that is choking parts of this beautiful ancient oak woodland. Twelve hardy volunteers from the group helped out last Thursday to start removing some of the highly invasive shrub, which...
Last weekend Jim Monahan, our Woodland Warden at Ledmore and Migdale wood in Sutherland, visited beautiful Abriachen Wood on the north shore of Loch Ness, and another of our Highland sites, with Ross Watson, our Site Manager for the North of Scotland. The aim of the day? - Ross was...
Earlier this month five Woodland Trust Scotland volunteers headed off for an intrepid trip with us into the wilds of our wonderful Loch Arkaig Pine Forest up in the Highlands. Two of the volunteers, Liz and Michelle, are volunteer Arkaig Ospreycam Researchers; and incredibly dedicated team who help us to review and...
Jupiter Artland was the backdrop on 8th September for our third volunteer gathering in Scotland this year. The setting was a stunning stately home, owned by a family who have filled their beautiful grounds with public artworks. [caption id="attachment_6462" align="aligncenter" width="439"] Our wonderful group at Jupiter -...
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...