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Birse Community Trust – Deer

We have just completed a project for Forest Enterprise and Birse Community Trust (BCT) which involved assessing deer abundance across two forest properties for the purposes of helping to set deer culls. The study area is a lovely forest near Banchory, and the work was a lot more pleasant than some of the places we work in further west that are dominated by young Sitka spruce. The survey work was…
May 20, 2015
Our Activities

Achilles – Verify B2 audit scores

The auditors from Achilles have recently been at the office, and out on site, undertaking our annual audit. We need this audit to be able to work on high risk sites (e.g. windfarms) for utilities such as Scottish Power Renewables. The audit looks at Health, Safety, Environment and Quality (HSEQ) and is comparable in standard to those for ISO 9001, 14001 and 18001. We have just received in our scores…
May 15, 2015
Our Activities

Deer Population Model – Monadhliath estates

A recent submission of cull records from over 40 landowners has enabled us to update landscape scale deer population models for the Monadhliath. This work represents the first stage in implementation of the new strategic deer management plan for the MDMG we prepared last year. The group has recently asked us to act as their Technical Advisor and the population modelling is part of the package of services we have…
April 7, 2015
Working Week

New native woodland – Easter Ross

We designed a new native woodland for a windfarm in Easter Ross several years ago. The design was informed by the Ecological Site Classification (ESC) model developed by Forest Research (FR). We recently returned to have a look at its progress. The site is now finally beginning to look like a woodland, after some early difficulties with deer browsing impact despite the site being fully deer fenced. It’s such a…
March 12, 2015