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Working Week

Bog restoration trial emerges from the snowpack!

We visited SNH’s bare peat restoration experimental site this month, which we are running on their behalf.  Amazing to see how well the site has survived the winter this year, with so little damage given how much snow is known to fall and drift into it.  The following sequence of images show the site in dry weather in autumn, then with light snow cover, peak snow cover, melting snow and…
June 27, 2016
Working Week

Landscape-scale management plan in Applecross

We have spent the last 5 months working up north with the Applecross Trust and community, helping to prepare the way for creation of a new estate management plan.  Many meetings have been held, and a sequence of fascinating discussions has taken place.  A very exciting and interesting project for us, which looks like it will produce some really positive outcomes.
June 27, 2016
Our Activities

Dry weather and blanket bog restoration

  Previous posts have described a project we are working on in Lanarkshire, which involves the development and testing of new forms of peat drain damming.  The new method, Wave Damming, is really interesting because it is so cheap to deploy.  We returned recently, in a severe drought, to see how the restoration trial sites have responded to damming in the current dry weather.  In essence, the sites are still…
May 15, 2016
Our Activities

Handling peat on a major construction project

We have recently been working with SEPA, helping them produce a case study describing the process of peat handling for a major infrastructure project completed recently.  Fascinating site - it required a 250 x 250m area to be excavated for a new electricity sub-station.  Suffice to say there was rather a lot of peat to be handled across to the proposed restoration site it was being re-used on!
April 20, 2016