Category: Nature
Posted on January 21, 2019
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I haven’t posted on my blog for an embarrassingly long time now – something I will try to rectify in 2019 – however, a recent assignment on my MSc course has given me the perfect opening to get writing again! For context: I am… Continue Reading “Beavering Away on the Farm”
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Category: Conservation, Farming, Forestry, Land and Wildlife Management, NatureTags: Agriculture, Aspen, Atlantic Salmon, Beaver, CAP, Castor fiber, Countryside, Debate, Ecosystem Engineer, Environment, Freshwater Pearl Mussel, Game, Habitat management, Highlands, Keystone Species, Livestock, Local, MSc, Nature, Norway, River Management, Rural, SciComm, Scotland, SNH, Stakeholder, Tayside, Vlog, Wildlife, Wildlife Management, Woodland, Woods
Posted on July 3, 2018
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“This house believes in paying farmers for more than food.” This is the motion that we, the panel, were presented with – to argue for or against – in the Oxford Farming Conference‘s debate at the 2018 Royal Highland Show on the 21st of… Continue Reading “Royal Highland Show: Oxford Farming Conference 2018”
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Category: Crofting, Farming, Forestry, Land and Wildlife Management, Nature, UncategorizedTags: Africa, Agriculture, CAP, Cattle, Collaboration, Common Agricultural Policy, Community, Cooperation, Economic, Ecosystem Services, Environmental, EU, Farming, Fisheries, Flow Country, Food, Food Production, Forestry, High Nature Value farming, HNV, HNV farming, Hunting, Innovation, Integrated Land Management, Integration, Land management, Landbruk, Local, Norway, Oxford Farming Conference, Peatland, Perverse Incentive, Public Goods, Regenerative Grazing, Resilience, Rewilding, RHS2018, Royal Highland Show, Scottish Land Use Strategy, Sheep, Social, Soil, Soil Degredation, Soil Erosion, Subsidy, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Intensification, Uganda, Wild
Posted on May 24, 2018
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The 2018 North Highland College exchange trip to Hedmark University campus at Evenstad, Norway, took place at an interesting time; with discussions around land use, rewilding, and wildlife management coming into public awareness more than they have for a long time… From the start… Continue Reading “A Brief Foray to Norway”
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Category: Conservation, Food, Forestry, Land and Wildlife Management, Nature, TravelTags: Antlers, Bear, Beaver, Black Grouse, Campfire, Capercaillie, Common Sense, Community, Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Cooking, Crofting, Culling, Culture, Ecology, Education, Elk, Environment, Evenstad, Farming, Fisheries, Fishing, Folklore, Forest Management, Forestry, Fox, Game, Grouse, Hedmark, History, Hunting, Jutulhogget Naturreservat, Keystone Species, Land management, Landscape Scale, Lynx, Mitigation, Moose, Nature, North Highland College, Norway, Outdoors, PhD, Pine Marten, Predation, Predators, River Management, Rivers, Road Safety, Roadkill, Scotland, Skogmuseet, Subsistence Hunting, Travel, Wildlife, Wildlife Management, Wolf, Wolverine, Woodland, Woodland Grouse, Woods
Posted on December 28, 2017
by Megan
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In the spirit of originality, I thought I’d do a wee review and look back over the best bits of 2017 in the days leading up to the New Year… It’s been a interesting, varied, and challenging year. It’s cliche to say it, but… Continue Reading “Looking back on 2017 – January, February & March”
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Category: Deer, Land and Wildlife Management, Nature, TravelTags: 2017, Austria, Deer, Deer Counting, Deer Management, Deer stalking, DMG, Flow Country, Hungary, Hunting, Lifestyle, Red deer, SNH, Travel
Posted on December 9, 2017
by Megan
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*Disclaimer* So I wanted to write a post about something I came across yesterday when out hunting, but before you read further, you should be aware that this post contains photographs of a shot deer, various images of the carcass, and of the postmortem… Continue Reading “Deer Health – Jaw Compaction and Body Condition”
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Category: Conservation, Deer, Land and Wildlife Management, Nature, UncategorizedTags: Biology, Biosecurity, Deer, Deer Health, Deer Management, Deer stalking, Dentition, Ecology, Food, Grazing Management, Habitat management, Health, Highlands, Hunting, Integrated Land Management, Jagd, Land management, QDMA, Red deer, Scotland, Scottish Highlands, Scottish Wildlife, Subsistence Hunting, Venison, Wildlife, Wildlife Management
Posted on December 6, 2017
by Megan
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Last month, I was entered into the Field to Fork competition, run in collaboration by BASC Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage, and Scotland’s Natural Larder. The competition aims to raise awareness of game meat as a healthy and sustainable option for the dinner table. It… Continue Reading “Field to Fork 2017”
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Category: Conservation, Farming, Food, Land and Wildlife Management, Nature, UncategorizedTags: BASC, BASC Scotland, Cooking, Culling, Field to Fork, Food, Game, Game to Eat, Land management, Nature, North Highland College, Pigeon, Rabbit, Scotlands Natural Larder, SNH
Posted on June 12, 2017
by Megan
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Last Friday I attended a peatland restoration demonstration day at Lairg; hosted by Forestry Commission Scotland, and organised by Flows to the Future. Firstly, a big thanks to you both, it was a very interesting and informative day, providing a lot of food for… Continue Reading “Peatland Restoration”
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Category: Conservation, Forestry, Land and Wildlife Management, NatureTags: Blanket Bog, Bunding, Dalchork, Deer, Deer Management, Ecology, Ecosystem, Environment, FCS, Flow Country, Flows to the Future, Forestry, Forestry Commission Scotland, Grazing Management, Harvesting, Hydrology, Integrated Land Management, Lairg, Land management, Moorland, Mulching, Natural, Nature, Peat, Peat Dam, Peatland, Peatland restoration, Policy, RSPB Scotland, SNH, Timber, Trench Bund
Posted on April 7, 2017
by Megan
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It’s been another interesting and busy couple of weeks. First up… ILUC17 The 30th and 31st of March saw the sixth annual Integrated Land Use Conference take place at Carrbridge. This years theme was ‘Balancing the Benefits of Woodland Expansion’. An interesting couple of… Continue Reading “Spring Update”
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Category: Conservation, Land and Wildlife Management, NatureTags: Deer, Deer Management, Ecology, Environment, ERI, Forestry, Fungi, Heather, Heather Trust, Highlands, Hunting, ILUC, ILUC17, Jagd, Lichens, Nature, Outdoors, Peat, Roe Deer, Roe doe, Roebuck, Scotland, Scottish Highlands, Spider, Spring, UHI, Uplands, Wildlife Management, Woodland
Posted on March 22, 2017
by Megan
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We’ve had a busy couple of days so far this week with our Deer Management Groups’ deer count. Finally grabbing a couple of days of decent – but still pretty choppy and snowy – flying weather, deer stalkers from within the management group gathered… Continue Reading “High Flying and Deer Counting”
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Category: Conservation, Land and Wildlife Management, NatureTags: ADMG, Culling, Deer, Deer Management, Deer stalker, Deer stalking, DMG, Ecology, Environment, Flying, Habitat Impact Assessment, Habitat management, Helicopter, Highlands, Hinds, Hunting, Nature, Outdoors, Red deer, Scotland, SNH, Stags, Surveying
Posted on May 6, 2015
by Megan
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I haven’t posted anything for ages (December, how embarrassing), so I thought I’d just give a wee update of what I’ve been up to. January: An interesting way to start the year, the perks included beating on my friends shoot and coming home with a… Continue Reading “A Start of the Year Update”
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Category: Conservation, Crofting, Land and Wildlife Management, NatureTags: Assynt, Beltane, Bird watching, Buzzards, Clay shooting, Crofting, Farming, Farmland waders, Glencanisp Lodge, Godwit, Highlands, Peregrines, Raptors, Scotland, Scottish Crofting Federation, Shooting, Snipe, Snow, Surveying, Update, Waders, Walking, Whooper Swans, YC20:20, Young Crofters
Wayfaring and Wandering 