Timeline
2024
West Linton Scouts learn tree seed
identification and sow trees for Roamers
Wood- Community tidy up Roamers Wood event
- Scouts do soil my pants experiment
- West Linton Cubs help recycle tree guards to
other woodlands
- Article in Scottish Borders Climate Action
Network
- West Linton Primary School pupils in P3-P7
undertake art, habitats, and biodiversity
activities and provide feedback
- West Linton Scouts undertake a soil my pants
experiment
- West Linton Primary School art avenue established
- Polli Alley established with Friends of the
Pentlands
- Path building begins
2023
- 6 activity sessions bring a class novel ‘Wolf
Brother’ to life for West Linton Primary School
pupils in P6
- Community social event celebrates Autumn
- Robert's Orchard planted
- West Linton Primary School P3-P7 visit for mini
beasts and tree trail activities
- University students being small mammal
survey projects
- First community music evening
- Milestone reached with 5000 trees planted
2022
- West Linton Primary School ‘digital leaders’
group begin to blog about Roamers Wood
- Scientific research begins with soil microbe
sampling project
- Visits by pupils from West Linton Primary
School to explore tree stories
- Tree nursery established at West Linton
Primary School
2021
- Furrows ploughed and tree planting began
- First visits by pupils from West Linton Primary
School
- Sustainable West Linton and District found a
site to develop a community woodland
2009
- The story of Roamers Wood began when early
discussions explored the idea of a community
space, that could contain a roundhouse, in three fields
at the top of the Loan, no longer needed for horses
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