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Gordon Gray Stephens Native Woods Cooperative gordon@nativewoods.co.uk 01852 500530 Involving Glen residents since Landscape Millennium Forest for Scotland days! scale and Bob Black and Gordon Gray Stephens Population Forestry

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Gordon Gray Stephens Native Woods Cooperative gordon@nativewoods.co.uk 01852 500530

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Landscape scale and Population level Control

  • Involving Glen residents since

Millennium Forest for Scotland days!

  • Bob Black and Gordon Gray Stephens
  • Forestry Commission Contract
  • Argyll and the Island Coast &

Countryside Trust (ACT)

  • Contractors reporting to a Steering

Group of locals, agency and council reps

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Why Glen Creran?

  • Conservation value
  • A landlocked glen
  • Work already in progress
  • Supportive Community

Council and individuals

  • Achievable
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  • Initial contacts aimed at securing

support from every affected land

  • ccupier.
  • Who owns what?
  • Written commitment from those

affected

  • A long waiting period without

contact while funding was secured

Gaining support from community and individuals

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Glen Creran: the rhoddie population

  • 29

Householders, landowners and land managers.

  • Mapped and

costed

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Dancing with Funders

Difficult to get “traction” with funders for £100k

  • Agri/forestry support mechanisms either

ineligible or not attractive to owners

  • Ineligible for Argyll Leader programme
  • HLF prepared to listen, but wanted more

community legacy: people outcomes or biodiversity outcomes.

  • SNH and FCS staff very supportive, especially at

local level

  • Backing from the Countryside Trust and

Community Council helped to convince

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Glen Creran Delivery !!

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Glen Creran Delivery

Preparing for work

  • All affected property
  • wners and/or
  • ccupiers recontacted
  • Individual maps and

site requirements drawn up into signed Memorandum of Understandings

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Glen Creran Preparations

  • Rhododendron and
  • wners change:

disease, enthusiasm, sales and confusion

  • IRATA
  • VAT
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Glen Creran Delivery

Three tendered contracts

  • Garden work
  • Estate work
  • Rope access

work

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Glen Creran Conclusions

It’s early days for conclusions!

  • Horticultural

Management

  • Time consuming
  • Commitment
  • Complexity
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Glen Creran Conclusion

  • Give individuals

time, but look to ease the process

  • Simplification
  • Dedicated team