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Mel Marchbank

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Native woodland planting

We’ve been busy working on a range of new native woodland projects recently. The biggest one is a plan we have produced for a 220ha new woodland in the south of Scotland – the site is an interesting one as there is c. 600ha of bog restoration and 200ha of other restoration intermingled within the planting areas. The overall land use change from forestry to 1,000ha of new habitats will…
April 18, 2013
Facts & Figures

Major bog restoration experiment

We’ve recently been setting up a new experiment to examine the prospects of restoring blanket bog on felled plantation forest. This is a fascinating long-term project that involves trying to restore a functioning acrotelm by raising the level of bog water table so new peat can form – the ultimate aim is to capture new carbon, whilst also minimizing losses of existing carbon. The work involves using an excavator to…
March 24, 2013
Weekly News

Hydropower Assessment

We’ve recently become involved in an interesting hydropower project in the Greater Glasgow area. The first stage of the project was to assess hydropower potential for the site, which comprises a wide-ranging network of lochs, reservoirs and watercourses in some mid-altitude hills. We then undertook a topographic survey of part of the site and undertook an environmental scoping exercise. The next stage will be to install flow gauging stations at…
February 6, 2013