As the demand for new native trees rises with ambitious tree planting targets, it's becoming harder for the supply to keep up. In some parts of Scotland it's getting trickier to get hold of locally provenant trees for our planting projects, both on our own...
Michelle Kelly is one of a team of Scotland Ospreycam volunteers, who every year help us make this exciting project run smoothly by watching, reviewing and editing footage from our camera at Loch Arkaig. Luckily, this is a project that pesky Covid-19 cannot halt, as...
Two nights ago the Loch Arkaig Pine Forest had a visitor to the nest...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Would you like to sign up as an Ospreycam Research volunteer? For the third year running we are looking for volunteers in Scotland to review and edit the footage on our ospreycam up at our beautiful Loch Arkaig site. [caption id="attachment_9398" align="alignnone" width="300"] Ringing Lachlan the...
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...