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'Those productive forests in the southwest are some of its biggest tourist magnets'
With forests expanding in Scotland, the sector is setting up a training initiative to address skills shortages - and its base is near Dumfries
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August 28, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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This is an excellent insight into a new modern productive #forest and the important role it will play in providing much needed #timber to secure local business investment and jobs in rural England.
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April 18, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Scotland’s forestry industry is facing a serious funding black hole

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Scotland faces £24m tree planting black hole and years of failed targets ahead
Scotland’s forestry industry is facing a funding black hole of £24 million
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March 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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'Frustration': Industry that should be championed is ignored or attacked
✍️ John McNee, editor @Forestry_UK

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Article: www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2502...
'Frustration': Industry that should be championed is ignored or attacked
Forestry Journal editor John McNee talks about the feelings of the overwhelming majority of Scotland's forestry professionals as part of The…
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March 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Inside the Lockerbie sawmill and the challenges it faces
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Article: www.heraldscotland.com/news/2502484...
What a tour of a Scottish sawmill told me about timber shortages and net zero
Vicky Allan takes a tour round the sawmill near Lockerbie taking spruce logs and making construction timber and finds it is a lesson in timber…
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March 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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A massive budget cut has knocked the forestry industry’s confidence, potentially stalling planting projects and leading to trees being destroyed.
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March 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Scotland’s forestry industry is facing a funding black hole of £24 million

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Scotland's Forests: Targets and timber shortages.

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Article: www.heraldscotland.com/news/2502444...
Scotland faces £24m tree planting black hole and years of failed targets ahead
Scotland’s forestry industry is facing a funding black hole of £24 million
www.heraldscotland.com
March 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Day 3 of the Herald's Forestry series and @brianpdonnelly.bsky.social has looked at the grants and the targets - and, no, Scotland is not on track 🎯
March 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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And here's the full article about the visit to the sawmill
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2502484...
What a tour of a Scottish sawmill told me about timber shortages and net zero
Vicky Allan takes a tour round the sawmill near Lockerbie taking spruce logs and making construction timber and finds it is a lesson in timber…
www.heraldscotland.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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vickyallan.bsky.social
The UK has a colonial attitude to timber'
In other words we only produce around 80% of the wood product we use.

For Day 3 of the @heraldscotland.bsky.social Forests series, I went to Lockerbie ook a tour of one of the UK's most productive sawmills

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What is going to happen to all these logs?
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March 21, 2025 at 10:14 AM