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After receiving £1,034,438 from Scottish Forestry for a woodland creation scheme, the Balavil Estate fails to meet its contractual obligation to provide for public access.
#ForestryPolicy🌲#PublicAccess🥾 #Cairngorms🏔️ #LateNeoliberalism

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Deer fences and access rights in the Cairngorms National Park (3) - Balavil update - parkswatchscotland
On 19th March I wrote to both Scottish Forestry and the Cairngorms National Park Authority (CNPA) about  the locked gates (see here) in the deer fencing around the Balavil Estate’s Creag Bhalg woodlan...
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April 13, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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What is the Scottish National Investment Bank trying to achieve by investing in Gresham House’s plan for Todrig? | Nick Kemp for Parkswatch Scotland:

#ScottishEnvironment🌱 #ForestryPolicy🌲 #LateNeoliberalism #ScottishBorders

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What are the Scottish National Investment Bank trying to achieve by investing in Gresham House's plan for Todrig? - parkswatchscotland
Todrig was once, as the photo of the main house shows, a wealthy hill farm in the Borders whose more recent decline is  part of a decline in sheep farming more generally.  It was acquired by Gresham H...
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September 11, 2026 at 10:26 AM
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The Scottish Investment Bank has sunk £50 million of public funds in 'novel' forestry investment propositions that sought to make money in a broken carbon credit market | Parkswatch Scotland.

#ScottishEnvironment🌱 #ForestryPolicy🌲 #LateNeoliberalism

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Are Gresham House and the Scottish National Investment Bank intending to use Verra carbon credits? - parkswatchscotland
In September 2021, the Scottish National Investment Bank (SNIB) announced it had committed £50m of taxpayer funds into Gresham House Forest Growth and Sustainability LP (Limited Partnership) as a ‘cor...
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September 7, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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The impact of Sitka spruce on new native woodland: Forestry & Land Scotland's management of Garadhban, east of Loch Lomond | Nick Kempe for 'Parkswatch Scotland'.
#ScottishEnvironment🌱 #ForestryPolicy🌲 #LochLomond

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The impact of Sitka on new native woodland - FLS's management of Garadhban on east Loch Lomond - parkswatchscotland
At the end of June I went for a walk over Conic Hill, starting from Milton of Buchanan and then back along the main road from Balmaha. The first part of the route, which I have followed several times ...
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July 12, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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Planting proposal poses serious risk to the Caledonian pinewood remnant in Glen Falloch | Nick Kempe for Parkswatch Scotland.
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They don't want you to know - the Caledonian Pinewood remnant in Glen Falloch is now at serious risk - parkswatchscotland
Yesterday, I discovered by accident when looking through Scottish Forestry (SF)’s register of woodland creation and felling permissions (see here) that a public consultation on native woodland restora...
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July 7, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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Ours Sitka future? | Drennan Watson for Parkswatch Scotland:
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Our Sitka future? - parkswatchscotland
[This article originally appeared last year in Mountain Views, the excellent journal of the North East Mountain Trust.  I am pleased to republish it, following my post on Seedy Sitka (see here) , usin...
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April 3, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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Seedy Sitka, red deer and the restoration of nature in the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park | Nick Kempe for 'Parkswatch Scotland':
#ScottishEnvironment🌱 #ForestryPolicy🌲 #LochLomond

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Seedy Sitka, red deer and the restoration of nature in the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park - parkswatchscotland
The person who sent parkswatch this photo was taken aback by the number of Sitka spruce they saw below the summit of Ben Vorlich, the Munro south of Loch Earn. Last month, while climbing on Beinn Doth...
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March 29, 2026 at 11:22 AM