FLS has agreed a six-year lease with the Dundee NCR Hillwalking and Climbing Club for the Kilbo Bothy in Glen Prosen, which will be its base for mountaineering in the Angus Glens.

A major clear-up operation is set to start in Mark Hill Forest, Solway, in a bid to tackle the significant damage caused by recent and past storms.

A shieling at Allt nam Muc, Brenchoillie. Pre-harvest environmental surveys by FLS staff have led to the adding of historic shielings to archaeological records.

Montane woodland expert Sarah Watts amongst dwarf birch. Her research has found deer densities below 3 animals per square kilometre is a crucial threshold for recovery of the species. © Sarah Watts

Carrying materials for exclosures uphill to a planting site on Ben Lui, where hundreds of woolly and downy willow saplings are being planted as part of a montane scrub restoration project.
© Natalie Ward/NatureScot

A roe buck enjoying wheat on the edge of a Borders woodland last summer, sent in by RSFS trustee Fenning Welstead.
© Fenning Welstead