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the Morvern Community Woodlands Company |
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Morvern Community Woodlands was established in 2002
to make a positive contribution to the sustainable development
of our remote, peninsular community. Run by a dedicated
team of volunteer directors drawn from the local community,
Morvern Community Woodlands is a not-for-profit company,
set up to bring neglected woodlands back into active
management.
Currently, the company manages Achnaha Community Wood
in partnership with Forestry Commission Scotland.
Since 2002, our activities have ‘branched out’
from just woodland management. We provide training in
woodlands skills and offer an outdoor venue for others
to run courses. We are developing a new method for controlling
invasive Rhododendron. |
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We have introduced minimal-impact machinery for timber extraction
and are now processing our own hardwood timber to add value
at source. We successfully lobbied for commercial hardwood
planting in the ‘industrial’ softwood plantations
of the peninsula, with three sites totalling 23 hectares established
by Forestry Commission Scotland in 2007-2008. We have built
a sustainable timber shelter for events and outdoor education.
Morvern Community Woodlands aims to work for the benefit of
the people of Morvern* to improve
their quality of life using the abundant local woodland resource
to:
(a) raise awareness of the need for sustainable management of woodlands
in Morvern and of the benefit of increasing the contribution of
Morvern woodlands to the local economy;
(b) create opportunities for woodland recreation and education,
and provide access to community woodland areas for recreation and
education;
(c) promote the active involvement of the local community in woodland
management and seek to create economic opportunities for local people
through woodland management and utilisation;
(d) develop the necessary skills for sustainable management and
utilisation of woodlands and woodland resources in Morvern and provide
the facilities and equipment for the development of these skills.
(Memorandum of Association 2004)
*bounded by Loch Sunart, Loch Linnhe
and the Sound of Mull
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