Members invited to forestry AGM

A former forestry student from Faskally is looking forward to hosting the Royal Scottish Forestry Society’s AGM next year.

Rod Pimm, a former student at the forester training school near Pitlochry, is inviting society members from across Perth and Kinross to attend the event.

The Royal Scottish Forestry Society will be holding its AGM from Sunday, May 6 until Wednesday, May 9, 2018 in the Culloden House Hotel near Inverness.

Over the three days, over 50 members of the 700-strong society will make visits to the Norbord factory in Morayhill, Dalcross and the Scottish School of Forestry in Balloch, as well as a number of Forestry Commission and private woodlands across Speyside, including Affric and Beauly woods.

Mr Pimm said:“The purpose of the Royal Scottish Forestry, founded in 1854, is to represent the interests of those involved in the growing and management of all trees, both commercially and aesthetically, and is engaged in promoting the business of forestry as an industry producing less than 20% of the country’s timber and timber product requirements, but still of some £1billion worth to the Scottish economy. Trees are carbon friendly, a source of employment, and a renewable resource.

“The society also supports, and regularly liaises with, the Inverness Forestry College and its students.”

The forestry society has long connections to the region, having displayed at last month’s Scottish Game Fair in Scone Palace, and having hosting the AGM itself in Highland Perthshire in 2013.