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Working Week

Upper Glen Affric

We were working in Upper Glen Affric recently, setting up long term monitoring sites high on the upper slopes. A helicopter had dropped off a load of fencing equipment last month, and “all that remained for us to do” was cut it up and form it into the experimental enclosures we were building for a study we are doing for the Forestry Commission.  Much brutally hard work ensued, predominantly in…
July 4, 2012
Working Week

Classic moments on Skye

We've been up in Skye for much of June working on a wide range of surveys for the Forestry Commission including deer population assessment, open range impact assessment and an appraisal of the Kinloch Hills planting scheme which was established a few years ago. Quality moments reported from site include seeing a pod of dolphins swimming near Kylerhea when we were out surveying, and also watching a sea eagle passing overhead!
July 4, 2012