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Trees for Life – Dundreggan – Deer Survey

We have spent some enjoyable time recently on Trees for Life's fascinating Dundreggan Estate site, having been asked to repeat a deer dung density survey by Doug Gilbert. It has been really interesting to go back to the site and monitor the level of change in deer abundance and distribution since the last time we were on site. It is such a lovely place to work, with great views and…
August 7, 2015
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IIP Investor in People – Strath Caulaidh

We are delighted to have retained our Investor in People status. We received a really good report from the auditor, although as always more can be done to push standards up in our environmental consultancy. The auditor had asked us to go for the Silver Award, in recognition of the high quality of the company’s systems for managing staff. However, we were informed that this would cost twice as much…
July 25, 2015
Working Week

Blanket bog – testing new drain blocking methods

We were starting to set up a really interesting new experiment this week, a part of which aims to trial a range of novel drain blocking techniques for use on blanket bog. The main idea behind the trial is to try and develop techniques that are quicker to use than conventional peat dams, whilst at the same time being effective at blocking drains which have oxidised cross sections (through the…
July 22, 2015
Working Week

National forest deer impact survey – Scotland

For several months this spring our staff have been working incredibly hard to undertake a complete survey of all Forest Enterprise Scotland (FES) re-stocking sites (almost 400!). It certainly gets us around the country. The survey is based on FC’s Nearest Neighbour method of assessing deer damage. The work is hard to undertake, as it is all based on newly felled sites that have been then been mounded ready for…
July 17, 2015