Working Week

We’ve just been finishing off a report quantifying the risks to a riparian planting project posed by deer browsing. The project is aiming to plant native woodland at landscape scale across a number of forests in northern Scotland, in order to help with water quality – it also has relevance to Natural Flood Management. The work involved deer dung density assessments and browsing impact assessments, as well as looking at…

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…