Forestry and woodlands

Scotland’s forestry contributes £1.1 billion to the economy each year and supports more than 34,000 jobs, a new report has found.

Preparing and writing a request for tenders/ an invitation to tender

This seminar will take you through some of the key things to include in a request for tenders, preparing a detailed specification for a job and, some of the different situations where you might ask for tenders. These vary from discrete one-off projects, such as designing and producing threshold signs to harvesting contracts and long-term woodland management services agreements.

With the herbicide Asulox no longer available to treat bracken, there was a need to update best practice guidance on bracken management, which was previously heavily weighted towards chemical treatment.

Farming for Foresters

With one third of UK woodlands on farms, it is more important than ever that foresters have a better understanding of farmers and farming and the huge opportunities that agroforestry brings. These online sessions will enable members to understand how best to integrate and better manage trees in the farmed landscape from a position of understanding farm systems and enterprises.

Scotland's Pinewood Conference

This October, Scotland’s Pinewood Conference 2024, aims to bring together a wide range of people interested in pinewood management to examine how landscape scale management can lead to ecosystem recovery, focusing on western pinewoods.

Official statistics published 20 June have revealed that Scotland has created the highest number of new woodland for 34 years.

The figures also show that nearly 75% of all new woodland throughout the UK were established in Scotland last year.

Saving Wildcats talk at Laggan Village Hall

European wildcats crossed from the Continent into Britain after the end of the last Ice Age, around 9,000 years ago. Once widespread, the species is now on the brink of extinction in Scotland. A sad history of habitat loss, persecution and, more recently, breeding with domestic cats, has forced the Highland Tiger to a point where the population is no longer viable.  Without urgent action, wildcats will be lost forever from our shores.

South West Scotland Future Landscapes Conference

Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) and South of Scotland Enterprise (SOSE) are proud to host the first South West Scotland Future Landscape Conference. This event will also launch the SRUC/SOSE Natural Capital Innovation Partnership.

Scottish Forestry are funding a limited number of free Farm Woodland Assessments within the Central Scotland Green Network, which covers an area stretching from Ayrshire and Inverclyde in the west to Fife and the Lothians in the east.

The assessments will allow farmers the opportunity to assess their landholding for potential planting with no future obligations.

MSPs have backed legislation that will transform how the Scottish Government supports farming and food production.

The Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Bill will ensure the Scottish Government can help farmers and crofters to produce more food more sustainably, supporting their essential role in climate mitigation and nature restoration. It will allow for a framework of payments that is responsive to the sector’s needs.

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