Alan Bird

This month saw us active on a very large repeat survey of the woodlands and moorlands of the western Cairngorms for Forestry and Land Scotland.  It’s been fascinating re-sampling at several hundred locations to see how much change has arisen since we last surveyed the area.  There’s been a lot of deer culled in the intervening period, with some positive signs apparent on the ground.  We’ve also repeated the Capercaillie…

We’ve just completed our formal report to SNH and the landowners on the success of two successive Caenlochan Section 7 Agreements designed to bring the Caenlochan SAC back into favourable condition. It’s been a really interesting project involving a multitude of survey work followed by completion of an in-depth review of historic and current data.  We’ve made a raft of recommendations off the back of the review and now await…