Working Week

We are currently setting up a landscape scale woodland deer survey to assess wild deer distribution and abundance in the vicinity of Glencoe and Ben Nevis.  The work involves sampling multiple forest blocks to establish how they rank in terms of deer densities.  The outputs of the survey will include deer population models and these will be used to set woodland deer culls, designed to reduce then maintain browsing impacts…

In the last weeks of July we had survey teams deployed to the south of Scotland . Our southern team were re-assessing habitat conditions on a major windfarm, having carried out original assessments here around 5 years ago. It was interesting seeing how the site has developed in the meantime and the evidence on the ground is that re-instatement and habitat improvement works have been reasonably successful in places.  Certainly…

In mid July our field teams have finished deer population and habitat impact assessments over a range of mountainous and wooded ground in the south east of Skye and in Glen Affric.  The hard graft of surveying on steep and often boggy ground was rewarded by brilliant views (Eigg, Rum and Canna from Skye, the Affric hills and North to the Strathfarrar munros from Fasnakyle). Except for the day when…