Working Week

We visited SNH’s bare peat restoration experimental site this month, which we are running on their behalf.  Amazing to see how well the site has survived the winter this year, with so little damage given how much snow is known to fall and drift into it.  The following sequence of images show the site in dry weather in autumn, then with light snow cover, peak snow cover, melting snow and…

We have spent the last 5 months working up north with the Applecross Trust and community, helping to prepare the way for creation of a new estate management plan.  Many meetings have been held, and a sequence of fascinating discussions has taken place.  A very exciting and interesting project for us, which looks like it will produce some really positive outcomes.

We’ve been away this month re-locating some old transects on an estate up north.  We previously surveyed the site in 2013, and since then a very large number of deer have been culled from it (in fact, in the first year the cull added almost 1% onto the entire national woodland deer cull).  Great to see the site again, and immediately note some possible changes in deer distribution.  It will…