Weekly News

We’ve been beavering away this week trying to get an application completed for the Environment Co-operation Action Fund (ECAF). It’s a really interesting new fund that has been set up by the SG, and one that could be a game changer assuming the funds can be accessed. As always with a new grant, some of the questions posed as part of the application process are quite hard to get a…

Here is a report just published by the Scottish Government on Land Reform, which has some potentially serious implications for deer managers depending on your viewpoint. It also contains a raft of other proposals that will likely have wide ranging ramifications - what interesting times we live in.

We are just in the process of setting up a landscape scale treatment plan for a ‘forest-to-bog’ restoration project. We have been undertaking a whole range of due diligence work including peat slide risk assessment (PSRA) and peat coring to check stratigraphy, alongside checking the level of tree regeneration and the nature of ploughing on the site in advance of specifying treatment works. The cores have been processed in our…