Our next Resilience Knowledge Exchange webinar with
@scotforestry
is available to book and will focus on bark beetle resilience, with international speakers joining us from Germany and Czechia, and speakers from
@Forest_Research
.
📅19 Nov
🎫Free
Book:
Read this blog by
@ForestryComm
explaining what the latest edition of the UKFS means for you:
Our UKFS e-learning programme can also help you get to grips with the fifth edition of the standard that came out this month. Sign up 👇
Are you a smallholder in Scotland? The Scottish Smallholder festival takes place on 19 October.
Featuring livestock competitions, seminars and practical demonstrations, workshops and more, there is something for everyone. Free for under 14s. Tickets ➡️
🆕 Today we have published the 2024 Nursery Survey which provides estimates of sales of improved nursery stock by forest nurseries in Great Britain.
Improved nursery stock refers to genetically improved Sitka spruce and Scots pine stock.
The data covers sales of Sitka
📢Calling all central belt farmers📢
Free Farm Woodland Assessments available for any farmer in the central belt from Ayrshire, Inverclyde in the west, to Fife and the Lothians in the east.
Apply here:
📢Calling all central belt farmers📢
Free Farm Woodland Assessments available for any farmer in the central belt from Ayrshire, Inverclyde in the west, to Fife and the Lothians in the east.
Apply here:
On
#WorldMentalHealthDay2024
a reminder of the importance of taking time to touch base with others in the farming community. It can be tempting to accept that first “I’m fine” but if you think someone is struggling, please ask again and give them your time. Just listening and
Join us for our next
#MembersHour
on 24 October with speakers Amanda Bryan MICFor and Claire Glaister FICFor who will be discussing stakeholder engagement in forestry in Scotland, highlighting tools, techniques and best practice.
Book now - members only:
🆕 A new Forest Research publication reviews existing evidence on biodiversity in many of the most commonly encountered commercial forest types in Great Britain.
Biodiversity studies were undertaken in commercial forests composed of mostly Sitka spruce and Scots pine, followed
Restoring riverwoods 🌳
Exciting progress is underway at our river woodland creation site on Corrimony Farm! Working closely with the farm owners & local contractors, we are now installing a deer-proof exclosure to protect the 22,000 native trees that will soon be planted there.
THANK YOU to everybody who took part in the
#GreatScottishSquirrelSurvey
! We will be revealing the results very soon ☺️🐿
You can still add sightings of grey and red squirrels from last week - these will be added into our database retrospectively.
We are having an Autumn Celebration in the park on the 12th of October from 1pm to 3pm. Come on down for some crafts and fun family activities.
#autumn
🌳 Our NATURE HERO of the Month 🌳
Andrew Barbour & his family at Mains of Fincastle Farm
As a family we run a 540-hectare organic upland cattle & sheep farm at Mains of Fincastle by Pitlochry. We’ve found agroforestry, integrating trees into our farming, gives many benefits.⬇️
Thank you to everyone who has completed and shared the survey so far.
If you haven't already, we would be very grateful if you could spare less than ten minutes to share your views - your voice can help us to help you live well, to farm and croft well👩🏼🌾
🌳STORM SEASON PREPARATIONS🌲
As autumn turns to winter, Scottish Forestry is keen to highlight that wind blow losses can be significant, but there is still time to prepare for the storm season.
Comprehensive guidance is available online:
#windblow
(2) You can join other farmers and land managers on Tues 8th Oct to Andrew's farm near Sanquhar to see for yourself via the
#IntegratingTreesNetwork
. The farm visit is free but please book in asap.
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