How master craftsman Tom Cooper transformed a storm-felled 200-year-old Dalkeith sycamore into a beautiful new trophy for Future Woodlands Scotland. The creation will be presented to the winners of this year’s Urban Forestry Award at Scotland’s Finest Woods Awards later this year.
© Tom Cooper Fine Furniture as photographer, with kind permission of Future Woodlands Scotland.

Honorary Professor Paul Thomas and truffle dog, Rue. Prof Thomas has successfully cultivated a black truffle, Tuber aestivum, on the Isle of Bute, where a pioneering science project is thought to have produced the first cultivated truffle recorded on a UK island. It has a value of £900/kg.
© University of Stirling / Paul W. Thomas

On a visit to Cashel, RSFS Chair David Henderson Howat was ‘volunteered’ to replace a failed tree in the Jubilee Orchard with a fine Victoria Plum, 1 August 2025.
© Nander Robertson

A groundbreaking soil survey on FLS land in Glen Prosen has unearthed a staggering number of species living beneath the ground. The researchers from James Hutton Institute will explain their use of cutting-edge eDNA techniques in Scottish Forestry journal during 2026.
© FLS

Sam Bowsher won the title of champion carver at Carve Carrbridge in the Cairngorms for his skilful depiction of a horse, beating his own father, who came third.
© James Ross

Forestry Minister Mary Creagh formally opened the new timber-framed, net zero building that houses Forestry England's new seed processing facility in Cheshire.
© Henry Terry

Aerial view of Forestry England's new seed processing facility, which it said will support the creation of climate-resilient forests.
© Wilmott Dixon