Borders Forest Trust

That #FridayFeeling! This 'otterly' adorable chap was spotted by Bob Watterson at one of our #BFTWildHeart sites! 🦦💚 Otters are a sign of a healthy ecosystem, relying on clean water & plenty of fish. 🐟 Many thanks to Bob! 📸 #Otter #ScottishBorders #Scotland #NaturePhotography

We were joined recently by a wonderful group from Land Use Consultants at our Corehead site. The group did fantastic work removing plastic tree shelters from established trees in the Tweedhope valley 🌳 #EcologicalRestoration #BFT #BordersForestTrust #WildHeart #ScottishBorders

The BFT team visited Crailing Community Orchard today to see the beautiful fruit trees & soak up some sun! 🍎🍐🦋 Check out the Art in the Orchard: Lino Printing Workshop on 26 Sep: eventbrite.co.uk/e/art-in-the-o… #bordersforesttrust #crailingcommunityorchard #apples #ScottishBorders

A Tweed Moment 📸Est. 1150, Dryburgh Abbey is nestled in woodland by the river where you can imagine the peaceful life monks would have led here. Share your Tweed Moment with us using #destinationtweeduk 💙#historicscotland #historylovers #rivertweed

🌳Riparian Planting🌳 Join @LockettRichard & @DeeWardRottal plus @scotforestry for an interactive webinar on #riparian planting. From designing, planting, species choice, location, cultivation and much more. ➡️tickettailor.com/events/integra…

We’re recruiting. How are you with money? We have vacancies for senior roles to help us with both raising money and managing it. Find details about these exciting opportunities at the link in our bio, or just click on About Us on our website.

We will be planting in spring 2025 with the Treesurv planting team. A huge thanks to @MossyEarth and @onetreeplanted for supporting the planting of this new woodland type at Talla & Gameshope. 📸Sam Knight @RamblingKnight

The planting will include an innoculation trial, designed by Rhizocore to establish if mycorhizzae inoculation aid survival and establishment in these trees when growing at altitude. Rhizocore will culture the mycorhizzae pellets for the innoculations when planting.

We are delighted to announce that we have secured funding from @MossyEarth to plant mountain birch, and high elevation growing downy birch at Talla & Gameshope. These 3135 trees will be used to establish a high elevation birch woodland above our lower mixed broadleaved woodland

Finally, a huge thanks to everyone who supported our appeal to buy Ericstane in the first place, we couldnt have got this far without your support! We are delighted to think that Ericstane North will soon be a biodiverse home for countless species to flourish🦡🌳

A big thanks goes to Andy Hines from Walker Hines Woodland Services for co-ordinating this work and preparing the proposal. Thanks also to Reuben Singleton, Andrew MacQueen, Jim Knight and Calluna Archaeology, the consultants involved in undertaking the survey work.

Some very positive news for those who want to see a more biodiverse Scotland. This photo shows our incredible site in the Wild Heart, Ericstane North... We are delighted to announce that we just had our application for 60ha of new native woodland here approved by @scotforestry!

Forest Plastics Working Group will then use this data for a variety of purposes, including to help prioritise recycling hub locations and navigate support to land owners/managers for removal of tree guards that are no longer required.

When you are out and about, and see a plastic tree guard, plot the location of this using the links below. Survey: survey123.arcgis.com/.../81ec5ea4f4…... Map and further info here: arcgis.com/.../c62f910470…

Introducing #PlotThatPlastic... Would you like to get involved in a citizen science project to help get plastic off our hills in scotland? Everyone can do their bit to help 'Forest Plastics Working Group' build a UK wide map locating the whereabouts of plastic tree guards...

3. Richard Thompson Richard works as Forestry and Land Scotland’s Native Woodland Ecologist, where he advises colleagues on the restoration of ancient woodlands and habitat monitoring – particularly identification of herbivore impacts.

2. Iain Laidlaw: Iain Laidlaw is a Chartered Forester with 40 years of experience in multi-purpose forestry. Having been the Grants & Development Manager with the Forestry Commission in South Scotland for many years, he is now the Operations Manager of the Woodland Trust.

Last week we had our yearly AGM in St Boswells. Long standing and new members came together to reflect on the impressive achievements of the past year, whilst looking forward to some exciting plans for the year ahead! ...