Weekly News

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…

We are continuing to develop new peatland restoration techniques for use in the Monadhliath mountains.  Today we were experimenting with dams in which storm flows are piped through to relieve pressure on the structure.  It was a really nice day, quite a contrast from the snows that arrived a few weeks ago.  Here’s one of our trucks at almost 3,000ft parked on the road verge – bit of an advert…

We are working in the western Cairngorms just now re-visiting old monitoring plots in the woodlands.  It’s a bit of a race to get them done before the first snows of winter arrive. Update: the snows arrived this weekend… in an interesting contrast, back down in the Tay valley it seems like winter will never come.  Got an interesting picture on the way home of deer and horses sharing the…