Posted on October 21, 2024
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I think it’s time for a very long over-due blog update…! Since I last wrote on here, we’ve had a global pandemic, several wars, Brexit really kicked in, Notre Dam cathedral burnt down, we’ve had elections galore, and the death of a monarch. It’s… Continue Reading “Electric Fencing: Innovations in Sustainable Croft Management”
Category: Conservation, Crofting, Farming, Food, Land and Wildlife Management, UncategorizedTags: Crofting, Farming, fencing, goats, homesteading, Land use, Native Breeds, Nature, renovation project, Scotland, Sheep
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”
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 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 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 April 26, 2018
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This is a copy of a guest blog I wrote for Scottish Land and Estates, following the Lantra Scotland awards. As it is, the last few weeks since Lantra Scotland’s Land Based and Aquaculture Learner of the Year awards ceremony have gone past in… Continue Reading “Lantra Learner of the Year Awards”
Category: Land and Wildlife ManagementTags: Change, Climate, Culture, Education, Gamekeeping, Guest Blog, Highlands, Integrated Land Management, Landscape, Lantra, Lantra Scotland, Nature, North Highland College, Resilience, Rural, Rural Youth Project, Scotland, Scottish Highlands, Scottish Land and Estates, SRUC, Training, UHI, Wildlife Management, Year of Young People, YOYP2018
Posted on December 9, 2017
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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”
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 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 March 22, 2017
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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”
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 February 5, 2017
by Megan
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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
Posted on May 20, 2015
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I’ve said before now that I am interested in conservation in all its forms. This is one of them. A real passion of mine throughout my life has been taxidermy. I remember, as a kid, wandering round museums looking at the mounted up animals and imagining them… Continue Reading “Taxidermy Eagle Restoration – Conservation of a Different Nature”
Category: Conservation, TaxidermyTags: Antique, Aquila chrysaetos, Art, Before and After, Bones, Collectible, Conservation, Crocodile, Eagle, Feathers, Fox, Highlands, Historic, History, Museums, Nature, Osprey, Otter, Paint, Re-building, Re-colouring, recolouring, Restoration, Scotland, Scottish Highlands, Scottish Wildlife, Sutherland, Talons, Taxidermy, Wildlife
Wayfaring and Wandering 