Mountain Woodlands Project
The Mountain Woodland project is a landscape scale planting project, which aims to grow and plant 500,000 mountain woodland trees through partnership working with land managers and nurseries. We will provide community groups and volunteers with specific knowledge in the growing and planting of these specialist trees, equipping them with the tools to help conserve and develop this facet of their natural heritage for present and future generations.
The 3 overarching aims of this project are:
- to conserve the UK’s diverse heritage and biodiversity for present and future generations to experience and enjoy through conservation and expansion (planting 500,000 native trees across 450 sq miles of Scotland) of the declining Mountain woodland habitat.
- to help more people, and a wider range of people, to take an active part in and make decisions about their heritage through the involvement of community led survey, landscape scale planting and nursery initiatives.
- to help people to learn about their own and other peoples heritage through the development of adult training courses and rural skills, youth focused extracurricular education courses and a best practice guidelines booklet for land managers.