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”
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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
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 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”
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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 May 20, 2015
by Megan
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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”
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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