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Before the handwork starts, everything has to be on the hill!
Our next peatland restoration site involves a lot of work done by hand: timber dams, coir logs, geotextile and several hundred tonnes of stone. The ground is far too soft to carry that in by machine without tearing it up, so we're flying it in.
That takes planning. Every load has a mapped drop point next to the dam or gully it's for. Deliveries of timber, coir, geotextile and stone are timed to arrive together, then sorted, weighed and rigged at the pick-up point. Our supervisor runs the lift on the ground and works with the helicopter crew all day.
No tracks across the bog, no mess, and the handwork team can start the day the last load lands.
#PeatlandRestoration #Peatland #HelicopterLift #ScottishHighlands #Handwork #UplandScotland #RuralScotland #TeamTaiga
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Business Support Admin, Donavourd, Pitlochry
We’re looking for an experienced administrator to join Taiga Upland at our Pitlochry base. You’ll keep the business running smoothly behind the scenes, supporting finance, HR, payroll, and systems admin for our business support team.
If you’re organised, reliable and enjoy being the person everyone relies on, we’d like to hear from you.
📍 Pitlochry | Full Time
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Rock in, road out!
Our tractors and dump trailers have been hauling stone from one of Forestry and Land Scotland's quarries to a forest road we're building under the FLS civil engineering framework. Well-maintained kit, certified drivers and a site manager with SMSTS keeping the whole operation running as it should.
Quarry work comes with its own rules and its own training. Our appointed Competent Person holds the Level 3 qualification in Geotechnical Knowledge for Quarry Supervision, so the site is run by someone who understands the ground as well as the machines.
Bigger jobs, same standards.
#ForestRoads #Civils #Quarrying #ForestryAndLandScotland #ScottishForestry #Infrastructure #RuralScotland #TeamTaiga
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Before the restoration starts, the machines have to get there!
We've just mobilised to a new peatland restoration site, and the pictures show what that involves. Excavators arriving on the low-loaders. Tracks swapped over to low ground pressure tracks, so the machines can travel on soft bog without damaging it. Access routes worked out across ground where nothing this size has been before, with gates, forest rides and soft patches all sorted before anything moves.
None of it is the glamorous part of the job, but it's the part that protects the site and sets up everything that follows.
Skilled operators, good planning and a team that thinks ahead. That's how a project starts well.
#PeatlandRestoration #Peatland #Mobilisation #ScottishHighlands #UplandScotland #Excavators #RuralScotland #TeamTaiga
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The most important part of this site is the hardest to photograph!
Our teams are preparing the ground for a landscape-scale native woodland, 500,000 planting positions across the hill, and every one is an invert mound. The turf is lifted, turned upside down and put back where it came from, leaving a small, clear, level spot for a young tree to establish in.
It's a subtle technique and it doesn't look like much from a distance. That's rather the point. No heaps, no holes, no water lying in pits, very little disturbance to the soil, and a hillside that will quietly turn into woodland over the next few years.
High-quality ground preparation for a high-integrity project.
#WoodlandCreation #NativeWoodland #InvertMounding #ScottishForestry #Rewilding #TreePlanting #RuralScotland #TeamTaiga
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