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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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Fencing on the hill sometimes starts with a helicopter!
Taiga Upland builds large-scale upland fences for forestry, woodland creation and nature restoration projects, and on a lot of that ground the hardest part is getting the materials to the line. Driving machines up steep or soft hill can churn the ground and take days.
For this deer fence we flew the materials in instead. The line was surveyed and drop points located in advance, and every load was bundled, weighed, strapped and laid out in flight order at the pick-up point. The helicopter then set each bundle exactly where the fencing team needed it.
Less disturbance to the ground, less time lost, and a fence line stocked in hours rather than days.
#uplandfencing #deerfencing #helicopterlift #ScottishHighlands #RuralScotland #WoodlandCreation #fencing #TeamTaiga
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New woodland, new deer grid!
On one of our woodland creation sites the old grid on the public road had reached the end of its life, so our groundwork team replaced it. First a bypass on compacted hardcore to keep the road open during the works, which stays in place for livestock and horse-drawn vehicles to use in future, with fencing to follow. Then the old grid out and a new 120-tonne public road specification deer grid in, and the approaches tarred to a high standard to finish the job.
A proper grid keeps deer out of young trees and keeps the road safe for everyone who uses it. Getting both right, on a live road, takes planning and the right people.
#WoodlandCreation #deergrid #groundworks #scottishforestry #RuralInfrastructure #civils #perthshire #TeamTaiga
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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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