Over the past couple of weeks, our contractor, D A Shanks, has been on site preparing the ground for our upcoming re-planting project. This has involved extensive ground works to […]
Category: Larch Removal
SPHN Larch Removal posts
SPHN Replanting Community Engagement Morning – Sunday 12th Nov, 1pm – 3pm, Gillies Hill Community Woodland ** Note the change in time ** Join us this Sunday (12th Nov) within Gillies Hill Community Woodland to […]
Progress with the larch felling The felling of larch required by the Statutory Plant Health Notice is now complete. About a third of our woodland was affected (21ha) and as a […]
What is a SPHN? SPHN stands for Statutory Plant Health Notice. It is a notice that is served by Scottish Forestry on woodland owners when they have found evidence of […]
The remaining 49 trees marked ‘drey’ as part of the SPHN were due to felled by 31st August. Our contractors RTS has previously estimated it would be w/c 22nd August […]
Another major milestone in this SPHN operation is that the forwarder is now offsite. Aside from where timber is stacked there are now no access restrictions within the community woodland. […]
Q: What area does the SPHN cover? A: 21.37ha of the community woodland and all larch within that area will be felled as a result. Q: Were all the larch […]
The forwarder is now working to remove logs from across the felled area (Zones 1 to 5), to the stacking area for haulage offsite. This week Zone 4 has been completed, […]
We’re pleased to say that the harvester has now left Gillies Hill. This means that all larch trees have now been felled – with the exception of those trees containing squirrel […]
Zone 5, our last zone, has been the focus both for hand-felling (guys with chainsaws) and the harvester felling and processing into logs this week. The harvester will be working […]