Core of partners
Organisations and groups who’ve been working as Core Forest partners include several non-government ones.
Vibrant natives
Scottish Native Woods acts as an agent for Core Forest Site landowners at Comrie, Craighall Gorge and Keltneyburn.
SNW is based in Aberfeldy in Perthshire. Its priorities are to restore and extend Scotland’s native woodland and to encourage vibrant and sustainable links between woods and people. It does many things in work based on those priorities, such as:
- Survey, management planning, supervision of contracts, training and demonstration of good practice
- Promotion of use of native timbers
- Management of woodlands to maximise their amenity value
Conservation and challenge
The Scottish Wildlife Trust owns Whitlaw Woods in the Borders Woods and part of one of the Shingle Islands. As a leading charity devoted to all of Scotland’s wildlife, the SWT administers a large suite of nature reserves. These stretch from Orkney to the Solway and Inner Hebrides to the North Sea coast.
SWT groups meet in the many different parts of Scotland and volunteers help with survey, management work, fund-raising and promotion. From a headquarters in Edinburgh and regional staff, the SWT seeks to provide practical advice on conservation through habitat management and to ‘challenge others’ with its independent advice and expertise.
Specialist services
RTS Ltd is a small, rurally based company that acts for the Drummond Estate at Crieff Woods. It provides specialist services to woodland owners throughout Scotland and now manages over 10,000 hectares of woodland on more than 100 properties. The Company’s broad-based expertise includes management of ancient semi-natural broadleaves, Caledonian pinewood, community woodlands and pheasant coverts and commercial plantations.
Rural expertise
CKD Galbraith, one of Scotland’s leading independent property consultancies, acts as an agent for three owners of the Shingle Islands. This national firm has offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth, Glasgow, Perth, Cupar, Inverness, Aberfeldy and Ayr and an associate firm in London.Rural estate management is one of CKD Galbraith’s many areas of expertise and service.
Woodlands old and new
Atholl Estates, owner of two of the Shingle Islands is one of Scotland’s best known Highland estates. Its history dates back to the 13th century and it now manages a range of operations in the tourism, events, forestry, farming, property and country sport sectors.
With offices in Blair Atholl, the Estate’s work is centred on Blair Castle. Woodlands cover some 5,700ha of land along the east banks of the River Tay, Tummel and Garry. In forestry circles, they are well known as including some of the first commercial plantings in Scotland, dating back to the 18th century.
3D Vision
Close to Cawdor Castle (which was built around a holly tree in 1375 by the Thane of Cawdor), the historic Big Wood at Cawdor is managed by Cawdor Forestry. This professional resource management company specialises in long term forest planning and management, landscape design and visualisation services.
Cawdor Forestry uses the latest technology, including 3D modelling and visualisation, to assist in landscape design and forest management planning.
Dedicated individuals
In addition to the companies and organisation who have been our partners, Core Forest Sites project has benefited from the help and commitment of many dedicated individual workers. These include people such as Gill Calver, our agent in the Sunart Woods, who gave an account of her work in the conference.
Many private landowners have been our partners including the Patterson farming family (link to Conference) and 54 others in the Clyde Valley, three in the Borders, one at Keltneyburn and one at Craighall Gorge. All of these people have made a difference to our work, both in the ground and through their wider influence on development of our wider ideas and methods.
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