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Mel Marchbank

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Beinn Udlaidh

We were working for a client up near Tyndrum recently, on a mountain called Beinn Udlaidh. It has a very unusual and interesting quartzite dyke running up its NW flank. The mountain also contains high grade gold deposits associated with the same rock types as found at the nearby Cononish gold mine – an attempt to re-open this mine was made recently by Scotgold. The mountain is also famous for…
January 16, 2013
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Peatlands

We’ve been working hard on an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for a new windfarm in the south of Scotland over the past months. There’s a wide range of work to do on the site to try and characterize its mires and peatlands habitats including: identification of macrotope and mesotopes boundaries, developing 3-D models of peat depth, ascertaining landform change from historic images, quantifying carbon stores at the site, identifying land…
December 9, 2012
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Woodland fringe

We have been busy working on a large project in the South of Scotland aiming to improve habitats for Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix) by establishment of patchy broadleaf woodland on the upper edges of large forest plantations. There is a strong landscape element to the work also, the aim being to ‘soften’ the hard edges of the plantations. It is quite an extensive survey we have been asked to do,…
November 14, 2012