Weekend High Camp at Talla

  • Start Date: 3rd May 2025
  • End Date: 4th May 2025
  • Time: Weekend
  • Venue: Talla Barn, Carlavin Hill.
Weekend High Camp at Talla
High camp at Talla. Credit: C. Patience.

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Join Borders Forest Trust for an exciting weekend camping at Talla Barn and planting at Carlavin Hill.

Over the weekend of the 3rd & 4th May 2025  volunteers will have the opportunity to help revitalise the landscape planting montane scrub (dwarf birch and downy willow). Montane scrub is a form of high-altitude tree-line woodland. The habitat occurs at the very highest limits of woodland growth and consists of low, stunted and dwarfed sprcies of trees, shrubs, dwarf -shrubs and alpine wild flowers. It would have once formed a vital part of the ecosystem in the hills of Scotland.

The establishment of montane woodland has been one of the pioneering initiatives taken in the Wild Heart to demonstrate that these neglected areas can be transformed once again into species rich habitats.

Volunteers will need to provide their own transport to site for these weekends and will need to be entirely self-sufficient for equipment and food for the weekend – so you will need your own tent, sleeping bag, camping stove etc.  Planting weekends are strenuous work and will require volunteers to have a good level of fitness.

Please let us know if you would like to book a place by emailing Adrian at volunteer@bordersforesttrust.org.

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