Partners, Sponsors & Links

  • Butterfly Surveying
  • Food for Beaver Scouts after their hard work at Dùn Coillich
  • Fencing volunteers in 2013 — Dùn Coillich
  • Robin and Gillian Hull Memorial Bench
  • Ring ouzel © Ronald Mitchell
  • Camera Trap
  • Rural Skills Course Outdoor First Aid Training
  • Joint working party with John Muir Trust in 2013 — at Dùn Coillich
  • White Dome Cap Fungus Dùn Coillich
  • Alan Scott Chainsaw Trainer
  • Upland Path Maintenance, Schiehallion
  • Dùn Coillich primroses (Primula vulgaris) in snow
  • Petty Whin Dùn Coillich
  • Schiehallion from Dùn Coillich
  • White Dome Cap Dùn Coillich
  • Trail marking
  • Green hairstreak
  • Camera Trap
  • Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria)
  • Monitoring Natural Regeneration
  • Sandra Winter working on Trish's enclosure in 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • Fungus Hunt Dùn Coillich August 2017
  • Rural Skills Course Tree Planting
  • Strimming - learning maintenance skills as part of the Rural Skills Training
  • Sundew Dùn Coillich
  • Bell heather (Erica cinerea) and cross-leaved heath (Erica tetralix)
  • Dyke Repairs Rural Skills Course
  • Braes of Foss working party 20170309 Dùn Coillich
  • Planting trees
  • Monitoring Natural Regeneration
  • Breadalbane Rural Skills Pupils
  • Wire transport for fencing 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Training Rope Training
  • Braes of Foss working party 20170309 Dùn Coillich
  • Mains of Murthly Farm
  • School group with Professor Russell Coope 2012 Dùn Coillich
  • Dun Coillich Walking maps and leaflets
  • Bilberries galore!
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Scrape Clearing
  • Dùn Coillich is a beautiful location for hillwalking
  • Allt Mohr: Dùn Coillich
  • LANTRA Training
  • Working with schools
  • Ropes course
  • Rural Skills Course Dry Stane Dyking
  • First Aid Rural Skills 3
  • First Aid Rural Skills 3
  • Fence wire transport on the contraption Dùn Coillich
  • Yellow rattle (Rhinanthus minor)
  • Coffee break
  • Ring ouzel © Ronald Mitchell
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Green veined white butterfly
  • Lichens on fence post
  • Rural Skills Training Fence Maintenance
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Schiehallion from Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Course 5 Brushcutting
  • Rural Skills Course ATV Training
  • A diversity of grasses, including Yorkshire fog (Holcus lanatus), a rapid coloniser of disturbed and wetter ground
  • Tree planting
  • Badger (Meles meles) caught on camera trap
  • Joint work party with John Muir Trust
  • Dyke building Sep 2017
  • Rural Skills Training, Ropes Training
  • Rural Skills Course Fence Maintenance
  • Allt Mohr: Dùn Coillich
  • First Aid Rural Skills 3
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • First Aid Rural Skills 3
  • White Dome Cap Dùn Coillich
  • Footpath Upgrades
  • Dùn Coillich - for the people
  • Viewing the Black Grouse lek on Dùn Coillich
  • Scrape Clearing
  • Rob Coope helping with transport in 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • Learning about nature
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Viewing the Black Grouse lek on Dùn Coillich
  • Braes of Foss working party 20170309 Dùn Coillich
  • Short-eared owl © Ronald Mitchell
  • Dyke building Sep 2017
  • Fungus Hunt Dùn Coillich August 2017
  • Route marking: Dùn Coillich
  • LANTRA Brushcutter Training
  • BBQ Autumn 2016 Dùn Coillich
  • Schiehallion from Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Course Fence Maintenance
  • Elderberry Dùn Coillich
  • Volunteers
  • BBQ Autumn 2016 Dùn Coillich
  • Joint working party with John Muir Trust in 2013 — at Dùn Coillich
  • Learning maintenance skills as part of the Rural Skills Training
  • Wire transport for fencing 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • Bog Asphodel Dùn Coillich
  • Trail marking
  • Small pearl fritillary Dùn Coillich
  • Volunteer Day
  • White Dome Cap Fungus Dùn Coillich
  • Recording biodiversity
  • There is a mink raft on Dùn Coillich which is there to check for the tracks of mink in clay
  • Ring ouzel © Ronald Mitchell
  • Short-eared owl © Ronald Mitchell
  • Short-eared owl © Ronald Mitchell
  • Visitor hut. Posters, information sheets and books are available for the use of school parties and other visitors
  • Heath-spotted orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii subsp. fuchsii)
  • Placing a camera trap to see what birds and other animals are on the move on Dùn Coillich
  • Northern Eggar Moth caterpillar Dùn Coillich
  • Fence wire transport on the contraption Dùn Coillich
  • Grandtully Primary School and the SNH camera trap project
  • Fencing volunteers in 2013 — Dùn Coillich
  • Recording biodiversity
  • Tree Growth Dùn Coillich
  • Moth caught in the moth trap overnight. (25-26/9/17) Dùn Coillich
  • Glengoulandie dam: Dùn Coillich
  • Recording biodiversity
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Treeplanting
  • Moth Trap overnight 25/26 Sept Dùn Coillich
  • Willie McGhee Andy Walker Holly
  • Rural Skills Training trainee in action
  • Rural Skills Training Path Upgrade
  • Wire transport for fencing 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • Lichen diversity
  • Dyke building Sep 2017
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • First Aid Rural Skills 3
  • Badger Dùn Coillich
  • Short-eared owl © Ronald Mitchell
  • Route marking: Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Course Tree Planting
  • Braes of Foss working party 20170309 Dùn Coillich
  • Monitoring Natural Regeneration
  • Puss Moth caterpillar Dùn Coillich
  • White Dome Cap Dùn Coillich
  • Enjoying the river
  • Butterfly Surveying
  • Melancholy thistle (Cirsium heterophylla)
  • Having a break from work 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • Recording biodiversity
  • An abundance of wild flowers
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Yellow saxifrage (Saxifraga aizoides)
  • Glengoulandie dam: Dùn Coillich
  • Tree planting
  • Sandra Winter working on Trish's enclosure in 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • Working with schools
  • Dùn Coillich and Schiehallion from Glengoulandie
  • BBQ October 2016 Dùn Coillich
  • Beavers Dùn Coillich
  • Grandtully Primary School and the SNH camera trap project
  • Rural Skills Course
  • White Dome Cap Dùn Coillich
  • Bell heather (Erica cinerea) and cross-leaved heath (Erica tetralix)
  • Badger (Meles meles) caught on camera trap
  • Route marking: Dùn Coillich
  • Beavers Dùn Coillich
  • Scot's pine (Pinus sylvestris)
  • Braes of Foss working party 20170309 Dùn Coillich
  • Freeing the trees
  • Beavers Dùn Coillich
  • Willie McGhee Andy Walker Holly
  • Footpath Upgrades
  • Rural Skills Trainees learning how to do dry stane dyking
  • Freeing the trees
  • Breadalbane Tree Planting
  • Dùn Coillich - for the people
  • Working with schools
  • Andy Pointer and Elspeth Paul marking the Centre of Scotland on Dùn Coillich
  • Melancholy thistle (Cirsium heterophylla)
  • Clearing Bracken from around newly planted trees.
  • Bog Asphodel Dùn Coillich
  • Peregrine falcon © Ronald Mitchell
  • Yellow rattle (Rhinanthus minor)
  • Dùn Coillich signage
  • Swallow (Hirundo rustica) nest on the OEF at Dùn Coillich
  • Ring ouzel © Ronald Mitchell
  • Dyke building Sep 2017
  • Tree planting
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Rural Skills Course Dry Stane Dyking
  • Food for Beaver Scouts after their hard work at Dùn Coillich
  • Northern Eggar Moth caterpillar near the Allt Mor (30/5/17)
  • Rob Coope helping with transport in 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • Tree planting
  • Rural Skills Course Tree Planting
  • Peregrine falcon © Ronald Mitchell
  • Repairing walls. Deer need to be controlled to protect the trees
  • Britains heaviest spider, the 4-spot orb-weaver Araneus Quadratus DC 20170905
  • Braes of Foss working party 20170309 Dùn Coillich
  • Having a break from work 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Course: Improving Access
  • A diversity of grasses, including Yorkshire fog (Holcus lanatus), a rapid coloniser of disturbed and wetter ground
  • Braes of Foss working party 20170309 Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Training Bridge Building
  • Placing a camera trap to see what birds and other animals are on the move on Dùn Coillich
  • Badger Dùn Coillich
  • Butterfly Surveying
  • Petty Whin Dùn Coillich
  • Great Diving Beetle (Dytiscus marginalis) Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Course Dyking Trainer Jim Grant
  • Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria)
  • Sneezewort Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Rural Skills Course Montane Woodland Planting with FLS
  • LANTRA Training
  • Common heath moth
  • Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria)
  • Fungus Hunt Dùn Coillich August 2017
  • Dyke building Sep 2017
  • Fencing Dùn Coillich
  • Tree planting
  • Clearing Bracken from around newly planted trees.
  • Monitoring Natural Regeneration
  • Fencing Dùn Coillich
  • Elderberry Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Training Path Upgrade
  • Fencing volunteers in 2013 — Dùn Coillich
  • Club Moss (Lycopodium) Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Course 5 Brushcutting
  • Joint working party with John Muir Trust in 2013 — at Dùn Coillich
  • Fencing Dùn Coillich
  • Breadalbane S1 on Dun Coillich summit
  • BBQ October 2016 Dùn Coillich
  • All geared up - learning maintenance skills as part of the Rural Skills Training
  • ATV's
  • Butterfly Surveying
  • Juniper Dùn Coillich
  • Schiehallion from Dùn Coillich
  • Willie McGhee Andy Walker Holly
  • Fencing volunteers
  • Rural Skills Course 2020
  • Monitoring Natural Regeneration
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Route marking: Dùn Coillich
  • 2021 Trainees
  • The road to Dùn Coillich
  • Breadalbane S1 on Dun Coillich summit
  • Rural Skills Course Pesticide Training
  • Launch of Heart of Scotland Forest Partnership
  • Upland Path Maintenance, Schiehallion
  • Dyke building Sep 2017
  • Food for Beaver Scouts after their hard work at Dùn Coillich
  • Treeplanting
  • Planting trees
  • Grandtully Primary
  • LANTRA Chainsaw Training
  • Camera Trap
  • Rural Skills Training Chainsaw Training
  • Breadalbane Tree Planting
  • The Hydro Scheme provides the Trust with an annual income. The scheme takes water from Dùn Coillich
  • Footpath Upgrades
  • Braes of Foss working party 20170309 Dùn Coillich
  • LANTRA Chainsaw training
  • A social gathering
  • Fencing Dùn Coillich
  • Having a break from work 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Course Fence Maintenance
  • Red-legged partridge (Alectoris rufa) photographed by a camera trap
  • Prominent Moth Caterpillar DC 20170905
  • Caddis Fly Larva: Dùn Coillich
  • Stunning landscape
  • Dyke Repairs Rural Skills Course
  • Rural Skills Course 2020
  • Rural Skills Training Fence Maintenance
  • Breadalbane Rural Skills Pupils
  • Fence Repairs
  • Tree Growth Dùn Coillich
  • LANTRA Brushcutter Training
  • Sneezewort Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Training Chainsaw training
  • Braes of Foss working party 20170309 Dùn Coillich
  • Clearing Bracken from around newly planted trees.
  • First Aid Rural Skills 3
  • Rural Skills Training Path Upgrade
  • Rural Skills Course: Improving Access
  • Clearing Bracken from around newly planted trees.
  • Witches' Butter (Exidia glandulosa) Dùn Coillich
  • Breadalbane Tree Planting
  • Beavers Dùn Coillich
  • Sundew Dùn Coillich
  • Club Moss (Lycopodium) Dùn Coillich
  • Beaver scouts examining the pondlife
  • Fungus Hunt Dùn Coillich August 2017
  • Launch of Heart of Scotland Forest Partnership
  • Fence repairs
  • Braes of Foss working party 20170309 Dùn Coillich
  • Badger Dùn Coillich
  • Dùn Coillich signage
  • Recording biodiversity
  • Trail marking
  • Rural Skills Course Ropes Trainer Ben Case
  • Witches' Butter (Exidia glandulosa) Dùn Coillich
  • Sandra Winter working on Trish's enclosure in 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Volunteers coffee break
  • Tree Growth Dùn Coillich
  • Beavers Dùn Coillich
  • BBQ October 2016 Dùn Coillich
  • BBQ Autumn 2016 Dùn Coillich
  • Robin and Gillian Hull Memorial Bench
  • Fencing Dùn Coillich
  • Rob Coope helping with transport in 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • Freeing the trees
  • Camera Trap
  • Butterfly Surveying
  • Learning about nature
  • Improving access

HPCLT works very closely with John Muir Trust and also with the Heart of Scotland project in collaboration with Scottish Wildlife Trust, Scottish Natural Heritage, Forest&Land Scotland, Garth Wood and the Kynachan Estate.

HPCLT is a member of the Breadalbane Deer Management group and of the Community Woodlands Association. HPCLT's Forest Manager, Willie McGhee sits on the Scottish Government Forest Policy Group. The Woodland Trust provides tree packs for school parties. We have received many visits from Pitlochry High School, Breadalbane Academy, Kinloch Rannoch Primary, Kenmore Primary and also the Beaver Scouts.


Visit their websites to find out more:

Scottish Biodiversity Scotland’s Biodiversity Strategy

Tayside Biodiversity Partnership

Woodland Trust Standing up for trees

Community Woodland Association Scotland’s community woodlands

John Muir Trust Protecting the wild places

Scottish Wildlife Trust

Ispot Share nature

Buglife Saving the small things which run the planet

Bumblebee Conservation About Bees

Butterfly conservation Saving Butterflies and moths

Field Studies Council Bringing Environmental Understanding to All

British Trust for Ornithology Looking out for birds

RSPB Giving nature a home

British Dragonfly Society Working to conserve dragonflies and their wetland habitats

The British Mycological Society Promoting fungal science

The British Lichen Society Promoting the study,  enjoyment and conservation of lichens