Mel Marchbank

Forestry Commission Scotland (FCS) has developed some new grants under SRDP that should be of considerable interest to woodland owners. The first is a Woodland Improvement Grant (WIG) to create a deer management plan, across multiple properties to ensure the majority of deer range is covered (i.e. landscape scale assessment). The central requirement is for owners to undertake a deer density assessment using dung counts, based on FC Bulletin 128…

All this rain over the preceding weeks has meant we have had no difficulties in seeing if our new drain damming trial site in Lanarkshire has recharged with water. The whole place is absolutely soaking! The project is a fascinating one, and has involved developing some new, much faster methods for damming drains on bog with in situ material. The new method has meant we can place the dams much…

We’ve been beavering away this week trying to get an application completed for the Environment Co-operation Action Fund (ECAF). It’s a really interesting new fund that has been set up by the SG, and one that could be a game changer assuming the funds can be accessed. As always with a new grant, some of the questions posed as part of the application process are quite hard to get a…