Our Activities

This month saw the beginning of a major new project reviewing and updating the Deer Management Plan (DMP) for a large Deer Management Group (DMG) in the Highlands. It will be a fascinating process meeting with all the landowners, getting to know all the landholdings, reviewing all the scientific information available and then trying to develop a Strategic DMP to which all owners can sign up to. Once the plan…

We’ve been busy working on a range of new native woodland projects recently. The biggest one is a plan we have produced for a 220ha new woodland in the south of Scotland – the site is an interesting one as there is c. 600ha of bog restoration and 200ha of other restoration intermingled within the planting areas. The overall land use change from forestry to 1,000ha of new habitats will…

We’ve been working hard on an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for a new windfarm in the south of Scotland over the past months. There’s a wide range of work to do on the site to try and characterize its mires and peatlands habitats including: identification of macrotope and mesotopes boundaries, developing 3-D models of peat depth, ascertaining landform change from historic images, quantifying carbon stores at the site, identifying land…