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Weekly News

Lowland deer management

  Lowland deer management is an increasingly hot topic.  The Lowland Deer Network Scotland has been trying to get to grips with the many challenges being caused by deer expanding into lowland areas. Here’s a good example of the kind of problems coming to the ‘fore!’…        
April 25, 2018
Working Week

Major survey in the Cairngorms

This month we started Phase 1 of a major new project with the Cairngorms & Speyside Deer Management Group.  It involves measuring deer occupancy and deer impact levels across the major woodland areas north and south of Aviemore, on the west side of the Cairngorms.  In the first phase, we are working with the RSPB at Abernethy and with Rothiemurchus estate, alongside SNH at Dell Wood.     In the…
April 24, 2018
Weekly News

Woodland Improvement Grant – deer management

  We recently completed fieldwork on a major deer management project in Highland Perthshire for Tilhill.  It involves producing a woodland deer management plan and was funded via FC’s new Woodland Improvement Grant for deer management planning, an exciting development for private woodland managers wishing to focus on crop protection and be grant funded by the government to do so.        
April 15, 2018