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Mel Marchbank

Weekly News

Site Condition Monitoring

We’ve been busy this month working on a large study in the Highlands, working with multiple estates to undertake condition assessments. The study involves repeating a large-scale Herbivore Impact Assessment (HIA) looking at the impacts of deer and sheep on montane vegetation. The study also involves undertaking a wide range of other work – Site Condition Monitoring (SCM) forms a large part, and this work is jointly focused on specific…
July 15, 2013
Our Activities

Major Deer Management Plan

This month saw the beginning of a major new project reviewing and updating the Deer Management Plan (DMP) for a large Deer Management Group (DMG) in the Highlands. It will be a fascinating process meeting with all the landowners, getting to know all the landholdings, reviewing all the scientific information available and then trying to develop a Strategic DMP to which all owners can sign up to. Once the plan…
June 13, 2013
Facts & Figures

Rocky ruins in the high hills

Many people who spend a lot of time in the hills wonder what it was like for the folk who lived and worked in them in centuries gone by. We often come across sheilings in the high hills in the Highlands, where folk brought their cattle in the summer to graze extensively on the new growth on the hill whilst their in-bye land was being cropped. The sheilings in what…
May 21, 2013