What is our mission?
We want to ensure the health and biodiversity of our woodlands for generations to come
Our task is to maintain the safe access to our woods for all to enjoy, whilst ensuring we encourage our native wildlife to flourish. We can do that by the removal of invasive species, selective felling and replanting and maintaining the walkways.
We are all volunteers giving our own time energy and enthusiasm to our mission! We have to comply to the legal requirements of being a charitable trust in all ways, however the most important is to consult with our community.
This web site is to provide information and also enable our community to engage with us.
We have a membership list that we maintain to share relevant information about our work, workdays or other points of interest. So please use the contact form to join that list.
We can always use more help, whether from experts in your field like forestry, or interest in our wildlife or willingness to support running events.
Our workdays are well publicised and they give opportunities to learn more about the woods, the work we do and you will help for example remove invasive species like Rhododendrons or Sitka spruce.
We also re plant areas adding new native species against our woodland plan. Last year we planted a new orchard which is growing nicely.
Remember we have to think about the long term, trees grow slowly so what we do now wont be seen as mature for 30 or 40 years time. We need a good imagination!
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Let's build the woods of the future together today
Any help is welcomed, join us for a workday, attend our Trustees meeting, or suggest ideas through the email link.
Please also email us to let us know if you spot anything you think we should know about.
We do regular inspections of the woods to spot dangerous trees, damaged paths or drains but we might miss something, please let us know.
Our woods are used by many people and some do abuse it. No fires, no out of control dogs.
Please clear up after all your dogs as children use the woods a lot and it can ruin a visit for someone.
Habitats are our goal
For our community, for our forest and for biodiversity
Nature is resilient, it recovers after damaging events such as string winds. It will even recover from fire and drought. So our job is not to get on the way, but to enable it to recover faster than if we were not there.
Our natural forests in Scotland have been affected by many factors, forestry itself has a large impact on our woods. It doesn't take much time exploring the woods to notice Sitka spruce regeneration almost where ever you look. These are trees that have self seeded from the large plantations nearby. If unchecked they will take over the whole wood, so we have to clear it through forest management.
Other non native trees also thrive in Strathnairn. Our native Scots Pine grows slowly so can often be overwhelmed by faster growing species.
We remove shrubs that can prevent other species growing and encourage native low level growing plants. In contrast to the local plantations our woodlands have rich floor cover which encourages insects, animals, fungi and much more.
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