Forestry and Land Scotland’s (FLS) engineers have constructed a rockfall barrier on the site of a landslide above the main Lochgoilhead timber haul road.

A large area of overhanging and fractured rock exposed by a landslide. Forestry and Land Scotland’s (FLS) engineers have constructed a rockfall barrier on the site of a landslide above the main Lochgoilhead timber haul road.

Jim Fairlie MSP, Minister for Agriculture and Connectivity visited Loch Arkaig Pine Forest in Lochaber to explore issues around sustainable deer management. Left to right: Simon Ritchie of Woodland Trust Scotland; Jared Child of Arkaig Community Forest; Jim Fairlie; Sarah Madden of WTS; Liam Wright of WTS; Angela Mercer of ACF; Georgie Pelly of WTS.

Participants at the RSFS’s forest pests and diseases workshop held at Forest Research’s site in Roslin on 15 August.
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Ash dieback in the Scottish Borders. Dieback and other tree diseases are resulting in significantly more greenhouse gas emissions than previously thought because a large amount of carbon is escaping from woodland soils, a study has found.
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Forestry and Land Scotland efforts to establish native woodland at a former commercial forestry site around Victoria Falls in Slattadale are slowly establishing a ‘new’ area of temperate Atlantic Rainforest.

Participants at the RSFS’s forest pests and diseases workshop held at Forest Research’s site in Roslin on 15 August.
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Kew Gardens revealed a timber design shaped like a fungal fruiting body for its new permanent pavilion in its ‘Carbon Garden’, which will showcase the essential role plants and fungi play in tackling climate change.