The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)

Farm woodlands awards

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Two farm woodland awards, each worth £1000, will be on offer during Scotland’s Finest Woods Awards 2019 scheme, building on the farm sector success of this year’s competitio­n.

There will also be a special one-off prize next year to celebrate 100 years since the 1919 Forestry Act. This will run alongside the Crown Estate Schools’ Trophy and awards for community woodlands, new native woods and quality timber.

“The one-off centenary prize will celebrate woodland created during the past 100 years that has evolved through careful and skilled management, has resilience to face the future and justifies the title of one of Scotland’s finest woods,” said Scotland’s Finest Woods executive director, Angela Douglas.

The second farm woodland award is for farmers or crofters and/ or their forest or woodland managers aged 40 or under.

“We are starting to see an understand­ing that farming and forestry can work very well together,” said Ralland Browne, managing director of sponsors Scottish Woodlands.

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Farming and forestry can work in harmony.

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