RSPB Abernethy NNR.
The RSPB at the Abernethy reserve near Loch Garten contracted us to help them with their bog reclamation work.
Basically the forests are criss crossed by a network of drainage ditches put in when the forest was managed for timber production. Now it is an important nature reserve, the RSPB and the SNH want to reclaim some of the areas for bog woodland to aid in the bio-diversty of species there. Our job was to hand build dams and cause the water to flood back into the forest. Dam building by hand.
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