Through the 2024/2025 planting season, a total of 73 small scale native tree planting projects have been supported across the region through the Dumfries & Galloway Tree Planting Grant Scheme. Recipients varied from farmers and landowners through to schools and… Read More »Dumfries & Galloway Tree Planting Grant Scheme supports 73 projects across the region
Carsphairn Community Woodland & Carsphairn Community Trust are jointly looking to recruit a new Development Officer. This is a 3 year, 22 hours per week post. Carsphairn Community Trust director Cathy Cockburn said: “As a director of the Carsphairn community… Read More »Community & Woodland Development Officer sought!
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 #2 – Birds?
Last weekend saw the culmination of a lot of work by community members and local partners in Stranraer, with trees planted in Rephad Primary School grounds and on the Stanctuary Project site. In total 409 trees were planted at the… Read More »Community Tree Planting reaches fever-pitch in Stranraer!
On 12th March, two night time walks took place at Kirkconnel Flow near Dumfries, and attendees might never be able to look at the natural world in the same way again… Dumfries & Galloway Woodlands – in partnership with the… Read More »Bioflourescence – a new way of looking at the Natural World
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 a recently felled commercial site. The first… Read More »Bennel Wood – Blog #1 – This ‘Awkward’ Wood
Sign up here for what will surely be a highlight of your half term… These events are a partnership between Dumfries & Galloway Woodlands and the Solway Coast & Marine Project (SCAMP). Sessions are run by the brilliant Ranger Toni… Read More »Winter Wildlife Tracking Events – 21/02 & 22/02
What naturally regenerates on a felled woodland site if it isn’t replanted? How can different ‘natural regeneration’ treatments influence the range of timber and other income streams possible from a felled site left to naturally regenerate? Bennel Wood, a 13-hectare… Read More »‘Woodland Laboratory’ established to examine natural regeneration processes on forestry sites
Where do our Apples come from? Why does Dumfries & Galloway Have such a high proportion of ‘pure’ crab apples? What can we do to protect this? These questions will be explored in a fun and informative online event at… Read More »Online event explores the history of national and local Dumfries & Galloway Apples – 28th Jan @ 7.30pm
What happens if an Artist shadows a Forester for a year? What unexpected connections will be revealed? A 12-month artists residency is now underway that aims to explore artistic interpretations of the work of a forester, giving a chance to… Read More »‘The Curious Conversations – Into the Woods’ – Artist residency is underway