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An Applecross sunset & climb

A fantastic sunset over the Skye Cuillin this evening on the way over the Bealach na Ba at Applecross. Had an interesting meeting with the community whom we are currently working with as part of a large project with the Applecross Trust.  Interesting to see how the work is developing. Took the chance afterwards to walk into the back of Beinn Eighe where we set up a bivouac and then…
May 12, 2017
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Lowland deer impacts / peri-urban deer

  We are putting a bit of time into peri-urban deer at the moment, including exploring the potential for landscape-scale dung counts and also thermal imaging as a compliment.         Also working on a new method to quantify lowland deer impacts by bringing together a wide range of information types such as those relating to deer-vehicle collisions, damage in gardens, damage to arable crops and impacts in…
May 6, 2017
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Counting deer with light aircraft

We continue to work on new ideas, our latest being an investigation into whether fixed wing light aircraft can be used to undertake direct deer census work in the uplands.  Caledonian Air Surveys of Inverness are working on the project with us.   Here are a couple of images obtained from a recent test flight.  We plan a large-scale test in the Monadhliath this coming month, and hope the new…
April 6, 2017
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Return to Creag Meagaidh

  Yet another visit to an old site, this time to Creag Meagaidh NNR funded and run by SNH where I did my BSc dissertation in 1995. My project looked at the pros and cons of regenerating native woodland at landscape scale using fences or culling, which even 25 years later is a hot topic with the current debate on deer management being overseen by the ECCLR at present.  …
April 6, 2017