Some Other Scotland – Ep22 – Forest

Forest

This Week:

  • Harald takes drastic steps to collect his prize.
  • Craig starts a fire.
  • Razer gets a history lesson.

This week’s news story:

Villagers agree to buy forest

changed to the alternative:

Villages buy forests

A number of community groups across Scotland are in the process of bidding for local woodland areas to be owned by villages as part of the Forestry Commission’s National Forest Land Scheme. Residents of Closeburn in Dumfries and Galloway were amongst the first to take advantage of the scheme, with several other villages in the Borders and across central Scotland starting the process of community ownership.

Further Information

BBC News – Read the original story.

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