#Forests can produce an incredible range of #biobased, #sustainable and #renewable material alternatives with applications in many sectors of the economy.
Online event on Wednesday with Napier, Glasgow & Edinburgh Universities. Plus SRUC, Scottish Forestry, Regenus
www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-wil...
Online event on Wednesday with Napier, Glasgow & Edinburgh Universities. Plus SRUC, Scottish Forestry, Regenus
www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-wil...
#forests #biobased #sustainable #renewable #scottishforestry #woodfibre #circularbioeconomy #thefutureisbright #thefutureisforestry #circulareconomy | Dr William Clark
#Forests can produce an incredible range of #biobased, #sustainable and #renewable material alternatives with applications in many sectors of the economy.
Join #ScottishForestry and friends from SRU...
www.linkedin.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
#Forests can produce an incredible range of #biobased, #sustainable and #renewable material alternatives with applications in many sectors of the economy.
Online event on Wednesday with Napier, Glasgow & Edinburgh Universities. Plus SRUC, Scottish Forestry, Regenus
www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-wil...
Online event on Wednesday with Napier, Glasgow & Edinburgh Universities. Plus SRUC, Scottish Forestry, Regenus
www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-wil...
Fantastic training day at Lauriston Castle with #Observatree volunteers & #ScottishForestry
Good to brush up on the symptoms of priority pests and diseases in Scotland - keep up the great work guys! 🩺🌳
Learn more about the project and submit your own tree health reports at 👉 buff.ly/7lb5M8w
Good to brush up on the symptoms of priority pests and diseases in Scotland - keep up the great work guys! 🩺🌳
Learn more about the project and submit your own tree health reports at 👉 buff.ly/7lb5M8w
August 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Fantastic training day at Lauriston Castle with #Observatree volunteers & #ScottishForestry
Good to brush up on the symptoms of priority pests and diseases in Scotland - keep up the great work guys! 🩺🌳
Learn more about the project and submit your own tree health reports at 👉 buff.ly/7lb5M8w
Good to brush up on the symptoms of priority pests and diseases in Scotland - keep up the great work guys! 🩺🌳
Learn more about the project and submit your own tree health reports at 👉 buff.ly/7lb5M8w
Great to meet with #ScottishForestry Highland Conservancy team near #Ullapool this week, quite the view! The topic: establishing trees on marginal, upland areas. We talked tree species, provenance, natural regen vs planting & constraints such as exposure, soil minerals, peat & deer. Super useful.
November 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Great to meet with #ScottishForestry Highland Conservancy team near #Ullapool this week, quite the view! The topic: establishing trees on marginal, upland areas. We talked tree species, provenance, natural regen vs planting & constraints such as exposure, soil minerals, peat & deer. Super useful.
Free Integrating Trees Network event 🌳
Join the Imrie family at Hillhead Farm to hear how planting trees helped their business and to chat funding and next steps for woodland creation with ourselves and #ScottishForestry 🚜
👉 Free tickets at: buff.ly/ZZw9isH
#TreesonFarms #Agroforestry
Join the Imrie family at Hillhead Farm to hear how planting trees helped their business and to chat funding and next steps for woodland creation with ourselves and #ScottishForestry 🚜
👉 Free tickets at: buff.ly/ZZw9isH
#TreesonFarms #Agroforestry
July 2, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Free Integrating Trees Network event 🌳
Join the Imrie family at Hillhead Farm to hear how planting trees helped their business and to chat funding and next steps for woodland creation with ourselves and #ScottishForestry 🚜
👉 Free tickets at: buff.ly/ZZw9isH
#TreesonFarms #Agroforestry
Join the Imrie family at Hillhead Farm to hear how planting trees helped their business and to chat funding and next steps for woodland creation with ourselves and #ScottishForestry 🚜
👉 Free tickets at: buff.ly/ZZw9isH
#TreesonFarms #Agroforestry
www.scotsman.com/hays-way/pla...
#biodiversity #nature #coniferplantations #forestry #sitkaspruce #sitka #scottishforestry #butterflies
#biodiversity #nature #coniferplantations #forestry #sitkaspruce #sitka #scottishforestry #butterflies
Plans for 500-hectare Scottish plantation lodged as forestry called 'inherent risk' to community
Campaigners claim the cumulative impact of large-scale conifer plantations is having a negative impact on communities and biodiversity in the region.
www.scotsman.com
March 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
🌐 Free Webinar - Integrating Trees Network 🌳
🚜 Your Farm's Future: Why and how trees can benefit your business. With ourselves, SRUC and #ScottishForestry
⏱️ Wednesday 26th November, 7-8.15 pm
➡️ Free tickets at buff.ly/C7Lzytm
🚜 Your Farm's Future: Why and how trees can benefit your business. With ourselves, SRUC and #ScottishForestry
⏱️ Wednesday 26th November, 7-8.15 pm
➡️ Free tickets at buff.ly/C7Lzytm
November 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
🌐 Free Webinar - Integrating Trees Network 🌳
🚜 Your Farm's Future: Why and how trees can benefit your business. With ourselves, SRUC and #ScottishForestry
⏱️ Wednesday 26th November, 7-8.15 pm
➡️ Free tickets at buff.ly/C7Lzytm
🚜 Your Farm's Future: Why and how trees can benefit your business. With ourselves, SRUC and #ScottishForestry
⏱️ Wednesday 26th November, 7-8.15 pm
➡️ Free tickets at buff.ly/C7Lzytm
#Observatree is a collaborative partnership with ourselves, DEFRA and #ScottishForestry. Volunteers help protect our trees & woods by tracking pests and diseases. 🧵 2/2
June 13, 2026 at 4:02 PM
#Observatree is a collaborative partnership with ourselves, DEFRA and #ScottishForestry. Volunteers help protect our trees & woods by tracking pests and diseases. 🧵 2/2
For World Book Day - 'The Ladybored Book of Self-seeding Sitka' from Langholm born designer E&LAppetiser
#sitka #sitakspruce #commercialforestry #scottishforestry #worldbookday #ladybirdbooks #selfseeding #invasivespecies
#sitka #sitakspruce #commercialforestry #scottishforestry #worldbookday #ladybirdbooks #selfseeding #invasivespecies
March 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
For World Book Day - 'The Ladybored Book of Self-seeding Sitka' from Langholm born designer E&LAppetiser
#sitka #sitakspruce #commercialforestry #scottishforestry #worldbookday #ladybirdbooks #selfseeding #invasivespecies
#sitka #sitakspruce #commercialforestry #scottishforestry #worldbookday #ladybirdbooks #selfseeding #invasivespecies
Commissioned by #ScottishForestry, @forestresearchuk.bsky.social has published a landmark shortlist of 28 tree species to help diversify and strengthen Scotland's forests against pests, diseases, and climate change.
For more information, see the post below 👇
#Forestry #ForestResilience
For more information, see the post below 👇
#Forestry #ForestResilience
We’ve been working with Scottish Forestry to develop a shortlist of 28 productive tree species that will help diversify woodland, strengthen resilience to pests, diseases, and climate change, and guide future investment and management decisions. 💪🌳
🔗 Learn more: ow.ly/jkvB50XjCLs
#ForestResearch
🔗 Learn more: ow.ly/jkvB50XjCLs
#ForestResearch
Developing a future productive tree species list for Scotland - Forest Research
Forest Research has created a shortlist of 28 tree species to help diversify and strengthen Scotland’s forests against pests, disease and climate change.
ow.ly
October 31, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Commissioned by #ScottishForestry, @forestresearchuk.bsky.social has published a landmark shortlist of 28 tree species to help diversify and strengthen Scotland's forests against pests, diseases, and climate change.
For more information, see the post below 👇
#Forestry #ForestResilience
For more information, see the post below 👇
#Forestry #ForestResilience
Scottish Woodlands have delayed submitting their forestry designs and grant application for planting Warblaw Hill, to Scottish Forestry, until the summer. We are continuing to campaign against monoculture forestry on this 'sensitive' site.
#forestry #scottishforestry #communityaction
#forestry #scottishforestry #communityaction
February 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Scottish Woodlands have delayed submitting their forestry designs and grant application for planting Warblaw Hill, to Scottish Forestry, until the summer. We are continuing to campaign against monoculture forestry on this 'sensitive' site.
#forestry #scottishforestry #communityaction
#forestry #scottishforestry #communityaction
This is what 330 hectares of Spruce plantation looks like, on the SW slopes of Warblaw. We are fighting a proposal to plant another 300 hectares of conifers on the other side of this small hill.
#sitka #sitkaplantation #biodiversity #scottishforestry #nature #peat #peatland #moorland @BenGoldsmith
#sitka #sitkaplantation #biodiversity #scottishforestry #nature #peat #peatland #moorland @BenGoldsmith
May 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This is what 330 hectares of Spruce plantation looks like, on the SW slopes of Warblaw. We are fighting a proposal to plant another 300 hectares of conifers on the other side of this small hill.
#sitka #sitkaplantation #biodiversity #scottishforestry #nature #peat #peatland #moorland @BenGoldsmith
#sitka #sitkaplantation #biodiversity #scottishforestry #nature #peat #peatland #moorland @BenGoldsmith
🤝 #Observatree is a collaborative partnership working to safeguard the UK’s trees and woodlands through #CitizenScience. Learn more 👉 www.observatree.org.uk
#TreeHealth #ForestResearch #CitizenScience #ScottishForestry
#TreeHealth #ForestResearch #CitizenScience #ScottishForestry
An early warning system for tree health and tree disease
Welcome to Observatree. We aim to help spot new pest and disease threats to UK trees
www.observatree.org.uk
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
🤝 #Observatree is a collaborative partnership working to safeguard the UK’s trees and woodlands through #CitizenScience. Learn more 👉 www.observatree.org.uk
#TreeHealth #ForestResearch #CitizenScience #ScottishForestry
#TreeHealth #ForestResearch #CitizenScience #ScottishForestry
Join our Outreach team and #ScottishForestry on Tues 9th Sept in Tighnabruaich, #Argyll 🚜
Discover how Katharine and David Lowrie are boosting biodiversity through their decision to plant native broadleaves on their #farm. A real-time success story! 🌱
Book your free place 👉 buff.ly/A1H1K6p
Discover how Katharine and David Lowrie are boosting biodiversity through their decision to plant native broadleaves on their #farm. A real-time success story! 🌱
Book your free place 👉 buff.ly/A1H1K6p
August 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Join our Outreach team and #ScottishForestry on Tues 9th Sept in Tighnabruaich, #Argyll 🚜
Discover how Katharine and David Lowrie are boosting biodiversity through their decision to plant native broadleaves on their #farm. A real-time success story! 🌱
Book your free place 👉 buff.ly/A1H1K6p
Discover how Katharine and David Lowrie are boosting biodiversity through their decision to plant native broadleaves on their #farm. A real-time success story! 🌱
Book your free place 👉 buff.ly/A1H1K6p
🎪🌳 Join us on Wed 27 Aug at 7pm #EastgateTheatre in Peebles for a screening of #AshRise
+ Q&A with Dr Helen McKay, FR Fellow & Chief Forester for Scotland.
🎫 ow.ly/2SL750WHqXn
✨ #ScottishFurnitureMakersAssociation in partnership with #scottishforestry & #AssociationOfScottishHardwoodSawmillers.
+ Q&A with Dr Helen McKay, FR Fellow & Chief Forester for Scotland.
🎫 ow.ly/2SL750WHqXn
✨ #ScottishFurnitureMakersAssociation in partnership with #scottishforestry & #AssociationOfScottishHardwoodSawmillers.
Ash_Rise_Documentary_Trailer
Trailer for the full Ash Rise documentary film to be premiered at Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh on 12 September 2024.
vimeo.com
August 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM
🎪🌳 Join us on Wed 27 Aug at 7pm #EastgateTheatre in Peebles for a screening of #AshRise
+ Q&A with Dr Helen McKay, FR Fellow & Chief Forester for Scotland.
🎫 ow.ly/2SL750WHqXn
✨ #ScottishFurnitureMakersAssociation in partnership with #scottishforestry & #AssociationOfScottishHardwoodSawmillers.
+ Q&A with Dr Helen McKay, FR Fellow & Chief Forester for Scotland.
🎫 ow.ly/2SL750WHqXn
✨ #ScottishFurnitureMakersAssociation in partnership with #scottishforestry & #AssociationOfScottishHardwoodSawmillers.
Hugging trees, a purely optional activity on the all-ability walk to #ButterdeanWoods
#woodlandwalking
#nature
#woodlandtrust
#forest
#scottishforestry
#rnib
www.walkfest.org.uk
#woodlandwalking
#nature
#woodlandtrust
#forest
#scottishforestry
#rnib
www.walkfest.org.uk
September 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Hugging trees, a purely optional activity on the all-ability walk to #ButterdeanWoods
#woodlandwalking
#nature
#woodlandtrust
#forest
#scottishforestry
#rnib
www.walkfest.org.uk
#woodlandwalking
#nature
#woodlandtrust
#forest
#scottishforestry
#rnib
www.walkfest.org.uk
Join #ScottishForestry and our Outreach team at Rory Dairy, #Peterhead for a free Walking & Talking Trees event 🌳 🚶
⏰ Thursday 9th October, 10 am - 1 pm
The event is part of the Integrating Trees Network. All welcome!
Free tickets at 👉 buff.ly/vNx5ho2
⏰ Thursday 9th October, 10 am - 1 pm
The event is part of the Integrating Trees Network. All welcome!
Free tickets at 👉 buff.ly/vNx5ho2
September 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Join #ScottishForestry and our Outreach team at Rory Dairy, #Peterhead for a free Walking & Talking Trees event 🌳 🚶
⏰ Thursday 9th October, 10 am - 1 pm
The event is part of the Integrating Trees Network. All welcome!
Free tickets at 👉 buff.ly/vNx5ho2
⏰ Thursday 9th October, 10 am - 1 pm
The event is part of the Integrating Trees Network. All welcome!
Free tickets at 👉 buff.ly/vNx5ho2
Warblaw Hill is part of Langholm, which is why we are objecting to commercial forestry here. We don't want Sitka Spruce plantations on our doorstep.
#sitka #sitkaspruce #scottishforestry #scottishlandscape #biodiversity #monoculture #invasivespecies #peat #peatland #moorland
#sitka #sitkaspruce #scottishforestry #scottishlandscape #biodiversity #monoculture #invasivespecies #peat #peatland #moorland
April 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Warblaw Hill is part of Langholm, which is why we are objecting to commercial forestry here. We don't want Sitka Spruce plantations on our doorstep.
#sitka #sitkaspruce #scottishforestry #scottishlandscape #biodiversity #monoculture #invasivespecies #peat #peatland #moorland
#sitka #sitkaspruce #scottishforestry #scottishlandscape #biodiversity #monoculture #invasivespecies #peat #peatland #moorland
"An inherent risk to biodiversity and community..." - the proposed 500 hectare forest at Todrig near Ashkirk in the Scottish Borders.
Reported in the Eskdale & Liddesdale Advertiser.
#biodiversity #nature #environment #community #scottishforestry #sitka #sitkaspruce #invasivespecies #monoculture
Reported in the Eskdale & Liddesdale Advertiser.
#biodiversity #nature #environment #community #scottishforestry #sitka #sitkaspruce #invasivespecies #monoculture
April 4, 2025 at 8:36 AM
"An inherent risk to biodiversity and community..." - the proposed 500 hectare forest at Todrig near Ashkirk in the Scottish Borders.
Reported in the Eskdale & Liddesdale Advertiser.
#biodiversity #nature #environment #community #scottishforestry #sitka #sitkaspruce #invasivespecies #monoculture
Reported in the Eskdale & Liddesdale Advertiser.
#biodiversity #nature #environment #community #scottishforestry #sitka #sitkaspruce #invasivespecies #monoculture
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2502231...
#forestry #scottishforestry #commercialforestry #sitka #siitkaspruce #communityaction #campaign #biodiversity
#forestry #scottishforestry #commercialforestry #sitka #siitkaspruce #communityaction #campaign #biodiversity
It's not just Stobo Hope. The communities fighting Sitka
Stobo Hope is just one forestry scheme set to blanket the landscape in conifers. There are others - as well as local campaigns fighting back
www.heraldscotland.com
March 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Invasive Sitka and Glen Falloch: Nick Kempe calls for the focus of native woodland restoration projects to shift from tree planting to reducing deer numbers and removing sitka spruce.
#ScottishEnvironment🌱 #NationalParks #LochLomond #ScottishForestry🌲
parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2026/06/01/i...
#ScottishEnvironment🌱 #NationalParks #LochLomond #ScottishForestry🌲
parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2026/06/01/i...
Invasive Sitka and the LLTNPA's nature restoration project in Glen Falloch - parkswatchscotland
Looking West down Glen Falloch to Garabal Hill from the West Highland Line May 2026. Glen Falloch, the location of a large part of the Loch Lomond and Trossach...
parkswatchscotland.co.uk
June 2, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Invasive Sitka and Glen Falloch: Nick Kempe calls for the focus of native woodland restoration projects to shift from tree planting to reducing deer numbers and removing sitka spruce.
#ScottishEnvironment🌱 #NationalParks #LochLomond #ScottishForestry🌲
parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2026/06/01/i...
#ScottishEnvironment🌱 #NationalParks #LochLomond #ScottishForestry🌲
parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2026/06/01/i...
Ours Sitka future? | Drennan Watson for Parkswatch Scotland:
#ScottishEnvironment🌱 #ScottishForestry🌲 #ForestryPolicy🌲
parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2026/04/03/o...
#ScottishEnvironment🌱 #ScottishForestry🌲 #ForestryPolicy🌲
parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2026/04/03/o...
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...
parkswatchscotland.co.uk
April 3, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Ours Sitka future? | Drennan Watson for Parkswatch Scotland:
#ScottishEnvironment🌱 #ScottishForestry🌲 #ForestryPolicy🌲
parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2026/04/03/o...
#ScottishEnvironment🌱 #ScottishForestry🌲 #ForestryPolicy🌲
parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2026/04/03/o...
Scotttish Forestry acted unlawfully anent the assessment of environmental impacts of a forestry project at Todrig in the Borders.
#ScottishEnvironment🌱 #ScottishForestry🌲#EnvironmentalImpact🦋 #LateNeoliberalism
www.forestryjournal.co.uk/news/2590806...
#ScottishEnvironment🌱 #ScottishForestry🌲#EnvironmentalImpact🦋 #LateNeoliberalism
www.forestryjournal.co.uk/news/2590806...
Scottish Forestry 'acted unlawfully' in approving 579-ha woodland, judge rules
Judge Lady Poole concluded the government agency acted unlawfully in how it considered whether work could begin at the proposed Todrig scheme.
www.forestryjournal.co.uk
March 11, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Scotttish Forestry acted unlawfully anent the assessment of environmental impacts of a forestry project at Todrig in the Borders.
#ScottishEnvironment🌱 #ScottishForestry🌲#EnvironmentalImpact🦋 #LateNeoliberalism
www.forestryjournal.co.uk/news/2590806...
#ScottishEnvironment🌱 #ScottishForestry🌲#EnvironmentalImpact🦋 #LateNeoliberalism
www.forestryjournal.co.uk/news/2590806...
The Scottish Government's £3.3 million forestry grant to Oxygen Conservation at Invergeldie | Nick Kempe for Parkswatch Scotland.
#ScottishEnvironment🌱
#ScottishForestry🌲
#Perthshire
#ForestryGrants💷💷💷
#PublicMoney💷💷💷
#LateNeoliberalism
parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2026/02/07/t...
#ScottishEnvironment🌱
#ScottishForestry🌲
#Perthshire
#ForestryGrants💷💷💷
#PublicMoney💷💷💷
#LateNeoliberalism
parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2026/02/07/t...
The Scottish Government's £3.3m forestry grant to Oxygen Conservation at Invergeldie - parkswatchscotland
On Thursday Oxygen Conservation announced (see here) that they have been awarded £3.3m in forestry grants to plant a large chunk of the Invergeldie Estate north of Comrie. So far Scottish Forestry do...
parkswatchscotland.co.uk
February 7, 2026 at 12:27 PM
The Scottish Government's £3.3 million forestry grant to Oxygen Conservation at Invergeldie | Nick Kempe for Parkswatch Scotland.
#ScottishEnvironment🌱
#ScottishForestry🌲
#Perthshire
#ForestryGrants💷💷💷
#PublicMoney💷💷💷
#LateNeoliberalism
parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2026/02/07/t...
#ScottishEnvironment🌱
#ScottishForestry🌲
#Perthshire
#ForestryGrants💷💷💷
#PublicMoney💷💷💷
#LateNeoliberalism
parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2026/02/07/t...
Three steps to give Scotland's communities a stake in the forests they live beside | Elelection manifesto call from the Forestry Policy Group.
#CommunityEmpowerment, #ScottishForestry🌲, #ScottishEnvironment🌱
www.forestpolicygroup.org/news/press-r...
#CommunityEmpowerment, #ScottishForestry🌲, #ScottishEnvironment🌱
www.forestpolicygroup.org/news/press-r...
Press Release – Three Steps to Give Scotland’s Rural Communities a Stake in Forests They Live Beside – Forest Policy Group
www.forestpolicygroup.org
January 27, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Three steps to give Scotland's communities a stake in the forests they live beside | Elelection manifesto call from the Forestry Policy Group.
#CommunityEmpowerment, #ScottishForestry🌲, #ScottishEnvironment🌱
www.forestpolicygroup.org/news/press-r...
#CommunityEmpowerment, #ScottishForestry🌲, #ScottishEnvironment🌱
www.forestpolicygroup.org/news/press-r...