All Posts By

Mel Marchbank

Working Week

New native woodland – Easter Ross

We designed a new native woodland for a windfarm in Easter Ross several years ago. The design was informed by the Ecological Site Classification (ESC) model developed by Forest Research (FR). We recently returned to have a look at its progress. The site is now finally beginning to look like a woodland, after some early difficulties with deer browsing impact despite the site being fully deer fenced. It’s such a…
March 12, 2015
Facts & Figures

Quantitative bog condition assessment

Over the past year we have been developing a quantitative condition assessment for blanket bog restoration sites, on behalf of a client. In essence, the system is based on a set of targets which we measure progress against. Each site is tracked from the time that treatment work is undertaken, to see whether its condition is improving over time and also to check it against the target levels set. The…
February 26, 2015
Working Week

Landscape scale deer dung count – Nevis

We are currently setting up a landscape scale woodland deer survey to assess wild deer distribution and abundance in the vicinity of Glencoe and Ben Nevis.  The work involves sampling multiple forest blocks to establish how they rank in terms of deer densities.  The outputs of the survey will include deer population models and these will be used to set woodland deer culls, designed to reduce then maintain browsing impacts…
February 10, 2015