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Over the past year we have been developing a quantitative condition assessment for blanket bog restoration sites, on behalf of a client. In essence, the system is based on a set of targets which we measure progress against. Each site is tracked from the time that treatment work is undertaken, to see whether its condition is improving over time and also to check it against the target levels set. The…

We are involved in a very interested project to quantify the impact on active blanket bog of wind turbine excavation and floating road construction. The project has been running for several years to gather pre-construction baseline data, and construction of the site has just recently begun. We designed a rig to help us detect whether the deck of the floating road sinks once is it loaded with construction traffic –…

A new experimental trial has just been completed on one of our client’s study sites in Lanarkshire. It involves testing the runoff from several areas on which different types of peatland restoration management have been attempted. The various things we are interested in include: nitrogen loads, potassium loads, phosphorous loads, Dissolved Organic Carbon, Particulate Organic Carbon and water colour. The project is exciting because it is the first time that…