👔 Director of Moorland & Strategic Projects @ScotLandEstates | ⚓️ Lt Cdr @rnreserve | 📚 Grad @univofstandrews & @CMS_UHI | 🌍 Fellow @RGS_IBG
Joined January 2015
- Tweets2.2K
- Following1.2K
- Followers1K
- Likes8.9K
Ross Ewing retweeted
A major boost for Scotland's #wildfire resilience 🚁
@scotgov has announced dedicated helicopter support during periods of high wildfire risk, following our calls for guaranteed aerial firefighting capacity.
Read more here: tinyurl.com/nseesyaj
Ross Ewing retweeted
Rural businesses provided £6.4m of kit at the Glenmore-Strathnethy wildfire.
More than 40 rural businesses assisted or stood by during the fire, which burned over 3,300 hectares of the Cairngorms in July and August. Their returns log 266 person-days, 38 person-nights and more than 250 items of machinery.
Nobody was ordered into danger. People volunteered or agreed to assist, and employers released more than 50 staff and contractors from normal duties and swallowed the cost.
Then several of them reached the muster point with wildfire equipment and were stood down, left waiting or sent home. The @ScotLandEstates report puts it down to pace: the help arrived faster than registration, tasking and communications could take it in.
The Argocats, foggers and leafblowers that did reach the fire front are muirburn tools. Estates buy them and maintain them to carry out planned burning, and that is the only reason they were parked within reach of the Cairngorms in July.
Read the full article — link in the replies:
Today @neilcgray announced @fire_scot will be able to put helicopters on standby & deploy them rapidly during periods of wildfire danger.
@ScotLandEstates has been calling for this, including in our recent report on the Cairngorms wildfire.
Good to see action being taken. 1/3
The next step must be to shore up this capability via a 4 nations approach to wildfire resilience & aerial firefighting.
It was good to hear @neilcgray also commit to pursuing this in parliament.
Work to do but positive first steps & all credit to @scotgov for stepping up. 2/3
Ross Ewing retweeted
Scotland’s wildfire response cannot rely on goodwill and improvisation. Our new Glenmore-Strathnethy #wildfire report records £6.4m of equipment & 266 person-days made available by rural businesses – and calls for a formal wildfire resilience system.
#RuralScotland
Read more 👇
Ross Ewing retweeted
Cairngorms wildfire in numbers: Report lays bare devastating impact of five-week blaze dlvr.it/TVG8qv
The Glenmore & Strathnethy wildfire saw 40+ organisations and over £6.4m of specialist equipment involved in the response.
A new report by @ScotLandEstates examines the lessons for Scotland's future wildfire resilience.
Coverage in @heraldscotland ⬇️ heraldscotland.com/news/2650…
Ross Ewing retweeted
Scotland's hills are big enough for everyone with a little respect - my @TheScotsman column today scotsman.com/news/opinion/co…
Ross Ewing retweeted
Headed up into the #Lammermuirs this afternoon. The heather’s blazing purple just now, and the rotational burning on the driven #grouse moors gives the hills that unmistakable patchwork look.
#heather #moorland #EastLothian
ALT Lammermuir Heather clad hills
ALT Red grouse
ALT Heather moorland
ALT Rotational burning
The Angus Glens are proof that integrated land management delivers environmental, social and economic benefits. If we want better outcomes for rural Scotland, policymakers must listen to the people who know the land best. My piece in @HeraldScotland today ⬇️
@ScotLandEstates
Ross Ewing retweeted
The finalists for the #HiH2026 Good News Award are:
🌟 Blether Together Podcast
🌟 Dumfries & Galloway What’s Going On?
🌟 Councillor Geva Blackett
🌟 Tweed Salmon Festival
Award sponsored by @mediahouseint
📅 1 Oct
📍 Edinburgh
🎟️Book here: tinyurl.com/45nem7mn
Ross Ewing retweeted
Really pleased to have an opportunity to do my bit to highlight the benefits of employing veterans….and reservists! linkedin.com/posts/jane-burn…
Fully support this representation by @TimEagleMSP - modular firefighting systems for the A400M Atlas probably represent one of the more cost effective options for enhancing the UK’s aerial response capability.
@JohnSwinney @neilcgray
Ross Ewing retweeted
UK wildfires spark calls for guaranteed access to aerial support ft.com/content/6691c87d-707a… via @ft
Ross Ewing retweeted
Excellent piece of work from my colleague @RossEwing97 highlighting the benefits Scotland’s rural estates deliver 👇
Jobs. Nature. #RuralCommunities. The new #AngusGlens Impact Report shows how 7 estates are delivering for #ruralScotland, investing £3.66 million in employment and helping restore #biodiversity while reducing #wildfire risk. 🎥⬇️
🔗 Report: tinyurl.com/23ndzhrx
A new report from @ScotLandEstates & @AGMG_UK shows that 7 estates in the Angus Glens generated £6.6M for the rural economy, supported 86.5 FTE & 768 seasonal jobs, provided 68 homes & delivered significant biodiversity outcomes in 2025.
Read the full the exec summary below. ⬇️
Ross Ewing retweeted
Jobs. Nature. #RuralCommunities. The new #AngusGlens Impact Report shows how 7 estates are delivering for #ruralScotland, investing £3.66 million in employment and helping restore #biodiversity while reducing #wildfire risk. 🎥⬇️
🔗 Report: tinyurl.com/23ndzhrx
Ross Ewing retweeted
It's time to move the conversation on from the challenges we all agree exist, to the solutions we all know need to be implemented to reform Scotland's business rates system.
✍️Our Chairman Patrick Colquhoun writes in today's Scotsman 👇
scotsman.com/news/opinion/co…
