Weekly News

Back on reporting of last years survey results today. A project in North Mull was the main target, and the results are really interesting. The island has only native Red deer present, and no Roe, albeit it also has a small population of Fallow deer introduced. The survey work was based on the technical methods we developed in the early 2000’s, as described in Forestry Commission FC Bulletin 128 “…

We have just completed a project for Forest Enterprise and Birse Community Trust (BCT) which involved assessing deer abundance across two forest properties for the purposes of helping to set deer culls. The study area is a lovely forest near Banchory, and the work was a lot more pleasant than some of the places we work in further west that are dominated by young Sitka spruce. The survey work was…

One of our active projects involves measuring rates of surface erosion on a bare peat flat in the Highlands. We are using modified version of Gerlach Troughs for this work, and re-visited them for the first time recently to quantify the flux of peat sediment. We were amazed to see how much peat had washed off the surface, so much in fact that they exceeded the design limit we had…