The project area, managed by Laggan Forest Trust in partnership with Forest Enterprise, is part of Strathmashie Forest, a mixture of Scots pine and exotic plantations with some native woodlands and open ground. One of the aims of the project has been to demonstrate how this Community Forest Partnership enables a forest to be a catalyst for community regeneration. The practical aspects of the project focus on a 310ha area of the forest where the main activity was the removal of non-native conifers leading to the expansion of native woodland plus a small amount of new planting. The plantations have been thinned to create a more natural structure and deer controlled to a low level within the wider forest, which will eventually be fully deer fenced. A network of footpaths, both new and improved, allow visitors and local people to enjoy an extensive area of woodlands and reach several spectacular viewpoints including a Pictish fort and the waterfall at Pattack.

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