On Wednesday 30th October, I joined nine Observatree volunteers at Forest Research's Northern Research Station, south of Edinburgh, for a sharing and mentoring day. Charlotte Armitage, who manages this volunteer role, set up the event with Hugh Clayden from Scottish Forestry, April Armstrong and Katy Dainton...
Ross Watson, Site Manager for the north of Scotland, has updated us on happenings in Den Wood: SRUC (Scotland's Rural College) Craibstone Countryside Management HNC students have spent the last four Wednesdays at Den Wood in Aberdeenshire, undertaking a variety of tasks. Each week sees different...
Hannah Humphreys, a volunteer with us until recently, tells her story of how volunteering with the Trust helped give her a start to her career as an ecologist: Over summer I was lucky enough to be successful in acquiring a 3-month internship with Forestry and Land...
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,...
Woodland Trust Volunteer Ian Baird recently visited the Isle of Mull with the Trust’s Croft Woodland Project Officer for Argyll & Lochaber, Iona Hyde. The purpose of the visit was for Iona to carry out a number of project monitoring visits and for Ian to...
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...
On 23rd and 24th September the staff team from Woodland Trust Scotland descended on the village of Shieldaig to put our heads together about our plans for this spectacular new aquisition in terms of restoring and expanding this special forested mountain. [caption id="attachment_13618" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Ben Shieldaig...
Our first Scotland Volunteering Conference was held at the Birnam Arts and Conference Centre in Perthshire over the weekend. I would like to thank each and every one of you that came along to the event. For me it was all about the people, and...
This year we have reintroduced twinflower to our stunning Ledmore and Migdale Wood in the north Highlands. Twinflower is a beautiful and delicate wild plant that's in trouble. It has two pink bell-like flowers on a slender stem and is is one of our smallest native...
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...