Recent blogs

We have recently been helping out again on an interesting hydro power project for Scottish Water Horizons and Inverclyde Council, involving use of an historic aqueduct system. It’s a really interesting project, in an unusual setting. The hydro power potential work we have been undertaking has yielded interesting results.

We have just completed a report that looks at changes in deer population abundance in the Aviemore area over the past 10 years. As part of this work, we were also tasked with looking at Capercaillie distribution and abundance. Indirectly, as they are present in a large part of the hill ground, we also ended up looking at pattern of reindeer occupancy using dung counts too. It has been such…

An interesting meeting today at the Monadhliath Deer Management Group. It was their AGM, and the main topic of discussion was the new Strategic Deer Management Plan (DMP) we helped them to prepare. It was agreed by the group to adopt the plan, almost unanimously, which is great news. This has been a truly fascinating project to be involved in, especially with all the deer-related discussion in the RACCE and…

We have a truly fascinating experiment running at present in Upper Glen Affric. A system of enclosure cages was built a few years ago, with help from a helicopter, in order to quantify the effect of deer grazing on high altitude plant communities. We were back again at site this week to see what changes are evident, and it is now clear that some effects can be seen on the…