Our Activities

  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…

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!

Over the past couple of years we’ve been working closely with Carron Tobin of Rural Dimensions in the Monadhliath producing a major Strategic Deer Management Plan for the DMG. It’s been a pleasure partnering with Carron who has a wide range of expertise in rural affairs, including communities and tourism as well as facilitation and consultation. We're now just starting on a brand new project together, producing an estate development plan for the Applecross…