Mel Marchbank

Attended the Nature of Scotland Award ceremony last night as guests of Scottish Power Renewables. Although unexpected, we won the award for Sustainable Development in recognition of our partnership working on forest-to-bog restoration on windfarm sites in Lanarkshire. This was a tremendous outcome for SPR, having invested so much money in the science necessary to develop the stump flipping/ground smoothing techniques we now take for granted. For a windfarm developer…

We went up to see a site this week treated as part of a Peatland Action fund project. A really interesting day, seeing hag re-profiling in action. It’s an innovative new technique that we will be interested to monitor in the long term to see if it changes the trajectory of the eroding sites it is being applied to. Thanks so much to Stephen Corcoran of CNPA for hosting the…