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Nature Printing Workshop a Success!

17th December 2020, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

On the 12th November the Woodland Artisan Project hosted Nature printing with Anne Roberts in Achiltibuie. All that attended had a fantastic time. Here are some pictures of the wonderful prints created. Looks like it is a lot of fun and well worth a try!

People, Training and Wildlife

Elphin Hall watertight again

9th December 2020, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

by Ann O’Keefe Well this has certainly been a year to remember, and Elphin, Ledmore & Knockan Community Association will remember it in a positive way because of the assistance given by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape Partnership (CALLP) to enable work to be done on our Community Hall roof and stonework to stop water entering the building. Thanks to…

Built and Cultural Heritage

Clachtoll Broch project nominated for Current Archaeology mag award – please vote!

1st December 2020, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

Great news! The project to rescue Clachtoll Broch, part of which was funded through the Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape Partnership, has been nominated as Rescue Project of the Year in the Current Archaeology Magazine Awards programme. The project is led by Historic Assynt, with excavations carried out by AOC Archaeology, and has revealed a huge amount about Iron…

Built and Cultural Heritage

The man (and woman) who plant trees*

27th November 2020, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

Most of us have heard the phrase ‘from tiny acorns mighty oaks will grow’, but how many of us have thought what that means when taken literally? For Nick Clooney, however, the proverb basically describes his job! Nick manages Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape’s Little Assynt Tree Nursery, and just this week for example, Nick delivered 2,500 oak and hazel…

Little Assynt Tree Nursery, Other

Thank you National Lottery players!

19th November 2020, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

It’s #ThanksToYou Day – a chance for projects that have benefitted from National Lottery funding to say thank you to the players who have made it possible. As you can imagine in the current situation it hasn’t been possible for us to get all our many projects together for a joint thank-you selfie, but we have managed to get a…

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A snapshot of the Outdoor & Woodland Learning programme

17th November 2020, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

It was a relief to return to outdoor learning with the schools as they resumed for the 2020/21 academic year back in August. Since then we’ve been busy with Achiltibuie Primary School and Lochinver Primary School every week. Here is a snapshot of what we’ve been getting up to: Explorations up hills… … into the woods… … and by the…

People, Training and Wildlife

Hazel woods – a link to our past

9th November 2020, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

An extract from the Atlantic Hazel Audit Report, by Roz Summers As part of the now complete Atlantic Hazel Audit project. led by the Assynt Field Club, Roz Summers has written a comprehensive report of the work, and the findings, which makes fascinating reading. To give you a taster here’s an extract from the introduction to the report –…

Other, Project news

Survey reveals Coigach and Assynt’s globally rare habitats

14th October 2020, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

Over the summer a survey funded through CALLP has discovered that the area between and around the sentinel peaks of Suilven and Canisp is home to an exceptionally large number of globally scarce and important upland habitats. The CALLP High Value Habitat survey is a joint venture between Scottish Wildlife Trust, Assynt Foundation and NatureScot, and aims to survey in…

Land and Conservation Management

World Class Postie’s Path

4th September 2020, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

For me the COVID-19 virus lockdown and subsequent easing was marked by site visits walking on the Posties Path, a Scottish Wildlife Trust lead project on the Trusts largest reserve Ben Mòr Coigach. The waymarked path, which skirts the seaward side of BenMor Coigach, is one of three traditional routes around ‘the rock, the stunning and rugged multiple peaks…

Paths and Access, Project news

EISG BRACHAIDH REVIVAL PROJECT – A SUMMARY

2nd September 2020, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

Woodland Trust Scotland recently shared some information with the community about plans to regenerate Eisg Brachaidh Estate. In response we have been asked for more information on the subject. We have produced this document, with a map to fill in more detail and answer some of the most common questions we have received. In addition, we are holding a drop-in…