Forestry
Preliminary policy position on the industrial forestry sector in Scotland
Author / Creator: Community Land Scotland
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: 2025
Industrial forestry corporations and asset management organisations further concentrate ownership and management of Scotland’s forests.
Active forests, thriving communities: rebalancing Scotland’s timber economy
Author / Creator: Willie McGhee
Media type: Discussion Paper
Date published: 2025
Forests matter — economically, ecologically, and culturally. More active, locally grounded forest management that restores ecological balance and enables communities to access, steward, and benefit from the forests that surround them areadvocated.
Forestry carbon – some questions
Author / Creator: Willie McGhee
Media type: Discussion Paper
Date published: 2025
Issues relating to forest carbon’s role within the Scottish Government (SG) NetZero strategy, its changing nature and how it is quantified
Investment forestry and the land market
Author / Creator: Jon Hollingdale
Media type: Discussion Paper
Date published: 2025
The impact of investment forestry on the land market, and the knock-on impacts for community ownership and community forestry, as well as the potentially damaging impacts on forest management
The Credibility Gap for Green Finance
Author / Creator: Jon Hollingdale
Media type: Report
Date published: 2023
Critiques the ‘green finance gap’ for Scotland
Forest Ownership in Scotland: Policy Review
Author / Creator: Jon Hollingdale
Media type: Report
Date published: 2023
Forestry ownership is intimately related to the multi-faceted requirements of land reform.
Fire Threats in the Scottish Countryside
Author / Creator: Martin Murphy
Media type: Article
Date published: 2021
In Scotland the incidences of wildfires have been accelerating at a considerable rate - quadrupling in a year.