The Solway Coast & Marine Landscape Connections Project (SCAMP) is a chance for us to better understand and then protect and support our Coastal Woodlands. Work is underway to identify coastal woodland species in our region – and it is… Read More »Aspen Propagation Workshop – 20th March
Dumfries & Galloway Woodlands (DGW) has been kicking off work to better understand our region’s coastal woodlands, and how the next ten years of the Solway Coast & Marine Landscape Connections Project (SCAMP) can support coastal woodlands themselves, and the… Read More »SCAMP Coastal Woodlands Development Work – Contractors Assemble!
Foresight Natural Capital (FNC) and D&G Woodlands (DGW) have agreed a new three-year collaboration to support practical, community-led projects that enhance biodiversity, public access and wellbeing across woodlands in Dumfries and Galloway. As part of this collaboration, Foresight will provide… Read More »Foresight Natural Capital signs inaugural collaboration agreement with D & G Woodlands to support forestry community projects
The Solway Coast and Marine Landscape Connections Project (SCAMP) is the first project supported through the National Heritage Lottery Fund’s ‘Landscape Connections’ programme and is an opportunity to support, celebrate and harness the potential of the Coastal Woodlands along the… Read More »Coastal Woodlands – SCAMP Contract Opportunities : Now Advertised!
An artist, a scientist, and a forester have been working together in Kilsture Forest, near Wigtown. What has this interdisciplinary relationship shown us, and can this uncover new ways of thinking about how we should respond to the climate and… Read More »Future Forest Watching: Artist | Scientist | Forester – Online Event 7.30pm, 3rd Feb
To support the ‘Bennel Wood – Woodland Laboratory’ project, we’ll be posting a series of blogs as we learn more about natural regeneration and the influence different treatments have on what grows on (and lives in!) a recently felled commercial site.… Read More »Bennel Wood – Blog #8 – One Year In…
December sees the start of a strategic Native Woodland development project, with work led by Dumfries & Galloway Woodlands and made possible thanks to funding from the Nature Restoration Fund. This will allow Dumfries & Galloway Woodlands to take a… Read More »Dumfries & Galloway’s ‘Wood-Wide Network’ project gets underway
Tis the season! For tree planting! On Wednesday 10th December the Dumfries & Galloway Woodlands crew will be at Glaisters Bridge Community Woodland, near Corsock. We have 150 trees to plant and hope to check on how last year’s trees… Read More »Tree Planting Session @ Glaisters Bridge! All welcome – 10th Dec, 9.30-12noon
To support the ‘Bennel Wood – Woodland Laboratory’ project, we’ll be posting a series of blogs as we learn more about natural regeneration and the influence different treatments have on what grows on (and lives in!) a recently felled commercial site.… Read More »Bennel Wood – Blog #7 – Space invader and watching the Regenerates
Rock Whitebeam (Sorbus rupicola) is the most widespread native whitebeam in the UK, but these populations are very scattered and the species is categorised as Nationally Scarce. Sorbus rupicola’s requirement for open but ungrazed habitats, means it is largely recorded… Read More »The search for Rock Whitebeam in Dumfries & Galloway is underway!