Dear Ancient Tree Inventory Verifiers, I hope that you have had an enjoyable time verifying trees for the ATI since our last update. Please see our latest update below. 2020 has already seen some impressive trees recorded to the ATI, and I am very excited to see...
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...
Dear Ancient Tree Inventory Team, I hope you have had another great month recording and verifying trees to the Ancient Tree Inventory and thank you very much for all of your continued efforts on the project. I wanted to send a final update for 2019 before...
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...
Dear Ancient Tree Inventory Team, I hope you have had another great month recording trees to the Ancient Tree Inventory and thank you very much for all of your continued efforts on the project. This month saw an extra 609 new records added and 449 trees verified...
Discover the ancient trees of Loch Arkaig Pine Forest Sun 10 Nov 2019 Join staff and volunteers from around Scotland on Sun 10 Nov 2019 from 10am to 4pm to find and record some of Scotland’s most interesting Caledonian pine trees at Loch Arkaig Pine Forest,...
Coffee and cheese scones have become the traditional start to the day for a small group of tree recorders in south east Scotland. In early September we met at a cafe near Pathhead, a village on the main road south from Edinburgh to plan our...
Dear Ancient Tree Inventory Team, I hope you have had another great month recording trees to the Ancient Tree Inventory and thank you very much for all of your continued efforts on the project. This month I was excited to welcome 3 new verifiers to the project!...
As an opportunity to thank our Scotland volunteers in Volunteers' Week we ran an ancient tree recording day at Drummond Castle near Comrie in Perthshire. 23 volunteers attended and it was a real treat of a day; massive oaks, Sequoias and sweet chestnuts, as well as...
by Maggie McCallum Glen Finglas Woodland Engagement volunteer Recently I was struck by the connections among the different activities of WT volunteers when I met some lovely people at Glen Finglas. The couple I spoke with were considering different areas of woodland available within the beautiful estate for...