Tuesday evening, 17th June 2025 people from Maryburgh Community gathered in the open green space in Birch Drive for the first Den Building Competition organised by members of the Maryburgh Community Woodland Group as part of the Maryburgh Gala 2025. Young and not so young people gathered to take part, building dens of all styles […]

At the beginning of June the volunteers were out again maintaining the community woodland for the benefit of everyone in the village. Following our maintenance plan guidelines, ten volunteers and 2 younger members of the community continued to remove the Beech saplings from compartment 5. Within a short while, many of the Beech saplings covering […]

The Community Woodland group ran a Spring Plant Hunt last Saturday (31 May).  At the start we made sure that all the people who would be recording observations had the app iNaturalist installed on their phones and that they could carry out an observation.  As the app is so easy to use we started to […]

The start of another month and the volunteers were out again maintaining the community woodland for the benefit of everyone in the village. Following our maintenance plan guidelines, ten volunteers continued to remove the Beech saplings from compartment 4. Within a short while, many of the Beech saplings coving this area had been removed and […]

Just before 9:00 am on Saturday 19th April, the message was sent to our members that it looks like the weather was starting to break along the coast, and we would get at least a little time without rain today. Six members of the Woodland Community Group made their way to the meeting place in […]

Reduction in Rhododendron ponticum Four months into the year and the group of volunteers were out again clearing the community woodland of invasive non-native trees and plants. Nine adults and a younger member of the Maryburgh community took part in the removal of beech trees and the Rhododendron ponticum at the southern corner of the woodland. […]

A tree condition survey was carried out on the 18th July by A Jackman & R Fraser (MArborA) BSc on behalf of Maryburgh Amenities Company. The objective of this survey was to record tree data to assess tree condition and provide management recommendations to mitigate the risk of tree failure where appropriate. Once the funding […]

Saturday 27 April 2024. The tree planting was successful today. 10 volunteers from the Maryburgh Men’s Shed and the Maryburgh Community Woodland Group arrived at 10:00 am today armed with spades and hammers. After, Megan explained that the new trees had to be planted as required by the Tree Preservation Order and the Highland Council […]

Part of our intention is to increase the biodiversity within the woodland. In order to achieve this, new wooden bird boxes made by the Maryburgh Men’s Shed have now been put up at various locations throughout the community woodland.