Great News. We have been successful in our application for some hazel trees to plant as a coppice resource in Glenlyon. Victor Clements who works for Scottish Native Woods in Aberfeldy helped us to get the trees, tubes and stakes from E- Forests- Good stuff Victor. Thank You.
The 300 hazels (with tubes and Stakes) are coming to us around the end of the month and will be planted in April. The planting should be a fun day as both Glenlyon Primary School and members of the local community work together to create a heat resource for the future, as well as a pleasant habitat corridor and potential source of food for insects, birds squirrels and humans.

Here be Cable

There is an interesting symbolism here also. Loch Archie, the planting site currently has space for more trees, due to an underground power cable having recently been buried along the top edge of the site. The cable is to take renewable energy from the new hydro schemes in Glenlyon to the outside world. We will therefore be creating (planting) one new renewable source of energy (heat from coppice wood) over another renewable source of energy (hydro).

Please note: To comply with current forestry guidelines concerning photography, this image features a dog.