Mel Marchbank

Working Week

Landscape-scale management plan in Applecross

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.

Mel MarchbankJune 27, 2016

Our Activities

Dry weather and blanket bog restoration

Previous posts have described a project we are working on in Lanarkshire, which involves the development and testing of new forms of peat drain damming. The new method, Wave Damming, is really interesting because it is so cheap to deploy. We returned recently, in a severe drought, to see how the restoration trial sites have responded to damming in the current dry weather. In essence, the sites are still…

Mel MarchbankMay 15, 2016

Our Activities

Handling peat on a major construction project

We have recently been working with SEPA, helping them produce a case study describing the process of peat handling for a major infrastructure project completed recently. Fascinating site - it required a 250 x 250m area to be excavated for a new electricity sub-station. Suffice to say there was rather a lot of peat to be handled across to the proposed restoration site it was being re-used on!

Mel MarchbankApril 20, 2016