Posted on July 18, 2018
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Reforesting Scotland Land Revival Tour – Cairngorms, 28th-29th of June I wasn’t sure what to expect from the Reforesting Scotland Land Revival Tour, but I knew it would be an interesting experience whatever happened. As you will know, if you’ve been following this blog,… Continue Reading “Reforesting Scotland Land Revival Tour”
Category: Conservation, Crofting, Deer, Forestry, Land and Wildlife Management, UncategorizedTags: Cairngorms, Cattle, CNPA, Collaboration, Community, Croft, Crofting, Deer, Deer Management, Deer stalking, Environment, Farming, Flerd, Forestry, GIS, Glenfeshie, High Nature Value farming, Highland Cattle, Hunting, Land, Mob Grazing, Montane Scrub, Mountain Hares, Native Breeds, Native Woodland, Nature, Peatland, Public Access, Reforesting, Rewilding, Riparian, River Management, Roe Deer, Rural, Scotland, Sheep, Soil Regeneration, Tourism, Training, Trees, Uplands, Wild, Wildland, Wildlife, Wildlife Management, Woodland, Woodland Pasture
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”
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”
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 March 30, 2018
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Where to begin….? I truly don’t know where to begin talking about this study trip. I was in Uganda for just over a fortnight, and saw and learned so much in such a short time. I’m going to be processing it for months I… Continue Reading “Uganda 2018 – Visiting the “Pearl of Africa” for the First Time”
Category: TravelTags: African Safari Masters, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Campfire, Camping, Culture, Farming, Fishing, Food, Forestry, Fruit, Hippos, Ishasha, Kampala, Lake Mburo, Leopard, Murchison Falls, National Park, Nile Perch, Pearl of Africa, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Semutundu, Travel, Uganda, Wildlife, Wildlife Management
Posted on June 12, 2017
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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”
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
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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”
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 February 5, 2017
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The Scottish Highlands have their own unique cold. I’m insistent of this fact, despite my colleague’s protestation that “Cold is cold.” Having just had the chance to sit in the Alps at -16, and the Highlands at 1 degrees Celsius, I can confirm the… Continue Reading “Stalking the Scottish Savanna”
Category: Conservation, Land and Wildlife ManagementTags: Challenge, Conservation, Culling, Deer, Deer stalker, Deer stalking, Ecology, Flow Country, Forestry, Highlands, Hinds, Hunting, Jagd, Land management, Lifestyle, Outdoors, Red deer, Scotland
Wayfaring and Wandering 