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The Scotland's Most Popular Countryside Destination Summer 2021 | No. 27 The The magazine of theVoice Friends of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs Scotland’s most popular countryside destination ALSO INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Visitor Management Matters; News Updates, Nature of the Park, Scotland’s Oldest Man, Walk in the Park and more 2 The Voice - Summer 2021 CH00121 - June FP Advert (outline).indd 1 16/06/2021 12:48 Chairman’s Introduction WELCOME TO THIS SUMMER EDITION OF VOICE, which is available in both print and online formats to maximise the opportunities to read about different aspects of the Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park. This edition includes news on recent activities by the Friends and others working to make the Park a better place for people and nature, during a particularly difficult time due to the ongoing impact of the COVID 19 pandemic. For much of the first part of the year, 40-mile signposted Trossachs Trail, which the cope with visitor pressures. We are pushing our efforts continued to be focussed Friends have led on in the absence of any for a more balanced approach, including on supporting local communities and public sector initiative. pop-up temporary seasonal car parks in fields tourism businesses that remained closed The investment in major visitor infrastructure and more temporary toilets to help deal with and struggling to survive a six-month improvements in the village of Luss by Luss problems in more positive ways, with many lockdown coming hard on the heels Estates, in readiness for the influx of visitors people simply wanting to park safely close of a four-month lockdown last spring. this year, has been impressive, with a new to lochs and mountains for walks and well- This included lobbying activities and 250 space car park, toilets and a village green being purposes with access to clean and well meetings with Fergus Ewing MSP, with safe path links. Equally impressive is maintained toilets. This would help greatly Cabinet Minister for Tourism and Rural some of the work of the Callander Landscape while medium-term infrastructure projects are Affairs, which were chaired by Jackie Partnership and the Callander Youth developed and implemented. There needs Project Trust (CYP) which has culminated in Baillie MSP and led to some welcome to be a real injection of pace to make things improvements to a network of paths and trails changes in support measures for the happen more quickly and to take advantage in and around this popular tourist town as well beleaguered tourist industry. of various funding schemes. as the creation of a catering training kitchen Some major positives to come out of the and new tourist accommodation for disabled Increasingly, our focus as we eased out prolonged lockdowns are the greater visitors and families with stunning views at the of lockdown moved towards lobbying recognition of the health and wellbeing values CYP Trust Bridgend site. on pressing visitor management issues of the great outdoors and National Parks, With funding support from NatureScot, we and taking direct action where necessary the importance of providing more youth supported Port of Menteith Community ourselves. Our efforts have primarily been outdoor recreation opportunities and the Council to undertake a review of visitor aimed at addressing gaps in provision and need to invest more in countryside visitor management issues and potential solutions complementing the work of the National infrastructure, which has been woefully around the popular Lake of Menteith. Park Authority, other agencies and some underfunded for the past 20 years. landowners and managers to ensure the area Encouragingly, almost half of the households Please enjoy reading this edition of Voice and is better prepared to welcome visitors back in the area responded along with all the hopefully the contents will inspire you to get safely and deal more effectively with visitor main landowners which meant that a robust out and about in the National Park and enjoy pressures. action plan with wide community support your newfound freedoms now that travel Important projects for the Friends included was produced and adopted. This was a great restrictions have eased. If you are not already the new ‘fast track’ Two Lochs Visitor example of a ‘bottom-up’ visitor management Management Project covering West Loch approach with strong community ownership. a member of the Friends, please consider Lomond and the head of Loch Long, tackling A worrying trend in the past year has been the joining and supporting our efforts to help serious outdoor toileting and littering move to more enforcement with around 5,000 protect, provide for and promote Scotland’s issues with the provision of temporary fines issued for ‘irresponsible’ parking and a first National Park. toilets, litter bins in laybys and map panels, plethora of yellow no parking and no litter All the very best. supported by the recruitment of three Visitor signs, traffic cones and traffic management Services Wardens. Another is the Trossachs electronic signs popping up in the busier parts JAMES FRASER Visitor Management Project that includes a of the National Park and this is largely due the Chair - Friends of Loch Lomond successful first phase refresh of the neglected absence of adequate visitor infrastructure to and The Trossachs The Voice is the magazine of the Friends of Loch Lomond and The Trossachs, the only independent conservation charity working to protect, promote and provide projects and services for this most precious Articles published in The Voice do not necessarily part of Scotland – The Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National represent the views of The Friends of Loch Lomond and Park. To join us or to find out more about our work please visit www. The Trossachs. Charity No. SC015389 lochlomondtrossachs.org.uk or use the form inside. The Voice is printed on 100% recycled paper Friends of Loch Lomond and The Trossachs; Carrochan; Carrochan Road; supporting the re-use of forest resources and Balloch G83 8EG in accordance with FSC standards only using post-consumer recycled wood and fibre Telephone: 01389 727761 Email: [email protected] Designed and printed by www.lochlomondtrossachs.org.uk The Inglewood Press Ltd, Alloa, Scotland Cover photo – Bench with a view, Inchcailloch, Loch Lomond www.inglewood-press.co.uk email: [email protected] Cover image by Paul Saunders www.paulsaunders.co.uk www.lochlomondtrossachs.org.uk 3 CH00121 - June FP Advert (outline).indd 1 16/06/2021 12:48 VISITOR MANAGEMENT MATTERS • VISITOR MANAGEMENT MATTERS • VISITOR MANAGEMENT MATTERS • VISITOR MANAGEMENT MATTERS • VISITOR MANAGEMENT MATTERS • VISITOR MANAGEMENT MATTERS • VISI Sir Malcolm Colquoun is custodian of much of West Loch Lomondside through his ownership of Luss Estates LOCH LOMOND’S and he is also Honorary LITTER SHAME President of the Friends of Loch Lomond and The Trossachs. Here he shares his views on the perennial problems of litter and what should be done to improve the situation on the lochside. HE BONNIE BANKS Litter is a matter that affects us all. On keeping our surroundings clean and tidy. of Loch Lomond: can one level it is a cultural issue, one that The National Park Authority was set up hardly reflects well on us as a people and there be any more to preserve and enhance the area for as a nation. How, you might ask, have we which it is responsible. And yet, when T created a society that so casually permits evocative placename in the earlier in the year the Friends of Loch its surroundings to be fouled in this Lomond raised the litter issue with the English language? One of the way, in an age in which environmental Park, its response was to say that “litter concerns dominate the political agenda? most famous and beautiful is a complex issue”. It isn’t! I don’t pretend to know the answer. places on earth, renowned It is extremely simple: it should not be the world over, it is a magnet allowed to happen in the first place, GREAT BEAUTY SPOT and when it does it should be picked for tourists and a showcase Yes, those who drop the trash in the up straight away. And so when, for for all the best that Scotland first place are primarily to blame, but example, the National Park recently put unfortunately sanctions for littering out a press release congratulating itself has to offer. have become pretty well non-existent on collecting 1,000 bags of litter in a – someone who casually dumps a pizza month the question we should be asking Or it should be. The reality is sadly box, or a beer can, or a dirty nappy on ourselves is: how was it allowed to get all too different. Over the years, we the roadside runs almost no risk of any like that in the first place? have allowed ourselves to become kind of comeback. Of course, it’s not just And it isn’t just about litter. It is for the dirty man, not just of Europe, but here on the Bonnie Banks that there’s a example unbelievable that, in the of the world. Wherever you look – on problem; but that this should be allowed 21st century, in a supposedly modern the roadsides, in the laybys, on the to happen here, in a National Park, in industrialised country, people have no loch shore and in the bushes – you are one of the world’s great beauty spots, is alternative to defecating (or, to use the confronted by a sea of discarded human surely a national scandal and a cause for hideous neologism, “toileting”) at the side detritus that spans the spectrum from national shame. of the road through the lack of provision the merely unsightly to the utterly We have to deal with this.
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