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Ecosystems & disturbance

I love the way that nature rebounds following disturbance, keeping our ecosystems resilient through an endless sequence of small-scale processes.  Here is a primrose that had colonised on top of a fallen root plate on the River Earn.
April 20, 2019
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Peat Action Monadhliath – update

The results of our collaborative peatland restoration project in the Monadhliath are now becoming evident.  In total, we have treated 1,234ha of land in the past 7/8 months – an amazing effort by all the organisations involved.  Here is an example of the outcomes on one of the estates from a distance, and close up.  The site used to be a dry peat flat with deep, dry gullies…
March 8, 2019
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Deer monitoring on Scotland’s National Nature Reserves

We started a program of laying out transects on some of SNH’s NNR’s this week.  With it being so snowless, we would not have expected to be able to work at the top of Creag Meagaidh but did.  Normally, it would be covered in ice climbers at this time of year. On the way to work later in the week I came across this freshly killed roe deer, yet another…
February 14, 2019
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Wild deer and road traffic

Travelling around Scotland a lot, we do see a lot of deer-vehicle collision evidence.  Here’s some deer on the way home from the pub (them, not me) the other night.  And then some more who decided they wanted to get a bit of a closer look at us.  Not ideal…
January 22, 2019