The responsibilities of DG Outdoor Access Trust are increasing due in the main to the universal Local Authority Budget constraints but at 2 years old a developing portfolio of actions. If that is of interest to you to you as someone who enjoys Dumfries and Galloway’s outdoor assets, please take time to read this newsletter… Read more »
DGOAT Newsletter Spring 2019
This spring brings mixed news. Good news first. Work has begun on the Long-Distance Path on the west coast of The Rhins of Galloway which is the first stage of the Dumfries and Galloway’s ambition to have a coastal path all the way from Gretna to Cairnryan, all 200 (roughly) miles of our coastline. There… Read more »
‘What is a path?’
If I asked a room full of people ‘What is a path?’. I’m fairly certain I would get quite a few different descriptions. And that wouldn’t surprise me. Because everyone has had different experience of walking a path. These range from a walk in Dock Park or the Crichton grounds to a Spring climb up… Read more »
Newsletter – Autumn 2018
Autumn in some respects, for me, matches spring as an ideal time to walk and enjoy the countryside. The light is still good on clear days, the midges are gone, there are opportunities to hear the stag roar and nature’s harvest is there to tingle taste buds. But not all news is cheerful. A report… Read more »
‘Together We Can, Together We Will’ – New discussion document launched by the National Council of Rural Advisers
To those who enjoy being in the countryside, it is many things to those who live here. The people of Dumfries and Galloway have a rich and diverse landscape which provides a valuable resource of natural assets and is a wholly rural region of Scotland. It is wild, beautiful, sparsely populated and is a fair… Read more »