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Before a single tree goes in the ground, someone has to prepare the site!
That's what our teams are doing across Scotland: restock mounding on felled woodland, working through the brash and stumps so that new trees have a good, well-drained spot to establish in when planting starts.
Ground preparation is where Taiga Upland started, and it's still a big part of what we do. Forestry-spec excavators, skilled and experienced operators, and sites left tidy, mapped and ready for the planters, whatever the conditions.
A quieter side of forestry than harvesting, but every new crop depends on it.
#ForestryGroundPreparation #Restocking #ScottishForestry #WoodlandCreation #RuralScotland #Forestry #UplandContracting #TeamTaiga
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Some of the most important peatland restoration work is done by hand!
Machines can't reach every part of a site. Where the ground is too steep, too wet or too easily damaged, our handwork team goes in on foot and finishes the job. Right now that means installing timber dams on a live restoration site, each one cut, fitted and levelled by hand so it holds water and lets the bog recover.
The timber is untreated Scottish larch from a local sawmill. Local timber, local sawmill and a local team, all working towards the same result.
It's tough, physical work on open hill, and this team turns up and does it well, day after day.
#PeatlandRestoration #Handwork #ScottishLarch #Peatland #UplandScotland #RuralJobs #Sustainability #TeamTaiga
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Upland deer fencing is a serious investment. It has to protect a new woodland or restock crop for decades, and getting it right matters more than almost anything else on the site.
Which is why experience is everything!
The fencers on our team have spent years on the hill. Trained professionals doing professional work. Certified, directly employed by Taiga Upland, locally based, taking real pride in what they leave behind. The right kit for the terrain, and the discipline to do the job right the first time.
Cutting corners on fencing looks like a saving on the day the contract is signed, and looks like something else a few years in. A fence is a long asset, and it's worth paying for the people who know how to build one that lasts.
#TeamTaiga #DeerFencing #WoodlandCreation #ScottishForestry #UplandContracting #RuralScotland
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Helicopter operations are becoming a bigger part of what we do at Taiga Upland!
Some jobs in Scotland's uplands simply can't be reached by ground vehicle without damaging the very habitat the work is meant to protect. Remote peatland sites, fragile ground, materials that need placing accurately in places a machine can't safely go. That's where helicopters earn their keep.
This month, our team was working with our friends at Skyhook Helicopters on a peatland restoration site, lifting bog mats onto the hill to create controlled water crossings exactly where they were needed.
What makes an operation like this run smoothly is the bit that isn't dramatic — the planning, the communication, the discipline of the team on the ground. That's what sits behind every good helicopter lift.
#TeamTaiga #SkyhookHelicopters #PeatlandRestoration #ScottishHighlands #UplandContracting #RuralScotland
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Forest roads are the foundation of everything the forestry industry moves. Timber, plant, people, materials — everything depends on a road that was built properly!
The team is on site this month starting a major forest road upgrade — mobilised in, clearing the vegetation from the corridor ready for the road formation work to follow.
Forest road construction and upgrades are a significant and growing part of what we do at Taiga Upland. Skilled operators, specialist kit, and the discipline to run multiple machines on a live forestry estate — for Forestry and Land Scotland under our framework contract, and for private forestry clients across Scotland.
New roads, upgrades, repairs. The fundamentals are the same on all of them. Reading the ground, managing the water, building to a standard that lasts.
#TeamTaiga #ForestRoads #civilengineering #scottishforestry #uplandcontracting #ruralscotland
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