LOGS the length of a double decker bus, harvested by Forestry Land Scotland (FLS) and supplied to a specialist log cabin builder, are now being used to build a full-scale log house. The house is now being constructed by Bedrock Buildings and they will erect it on site in the early summer, on a plot of land in the village …

 

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New research commissioned by Scottish Forestry offers evidence that commercial forestry will be the mainstay of climate emergency mitigation in Scotland’s push towards Net Zero. A recently published report, with work carried out by Forest Research, assesses different options for woodland creation and management from the perspective of carbon sequestration and a reduction in Greenhouse Gas Emissions. It found that …

 

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Forestry and Land Scotland says that the UK as a whole – which currently imports 80% [note 5] of its annual timber requirement – is far too vulnerable to fluctuations in the global market. But it also says that Scotland is well placed to mitigate that risk by stepping up its commercial forestry sector. Home-grown grown timber makes up only ...
 

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