Cairngorms Upland Advisory group - February 2020 - Cairngorms Connect Partnership update

Cairngorms Con­nect Chris Donald

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ENDANGERED FUN­DED BY LAND­SCAPES PRO­GRAMME ARCA­DIA A char­it­able fund of Lis­bet Raus­ing and Peter Bald­win Danube Delta lori River Val­ley Ukraine, Romania & Mol­dova Geor­gia Great­er Côa Val­ley Por­tugal Gökova Bay to Cape Gelidonya Tur­key Carpath­i­an Moun­tains Romania Polesia Belarus & Ukraine Cairngorms Con­nect Scot­land Sum­mit to Sea Cam­bri­an Moun­tains, Wales

• 84ha of Lodge­pole pine from Rothiemurchus (the McAlpine Plant­a­tion), Drumguish and Inshriach. This area has now been scar­i­fied for dir­ect seed­ing with Scots pine. 100ha of Lodge­pole pine from Glenfeshie

in Q Search Alban Thom Sus­tain­able Forest Man­age­ment BSc Fol­low­ers Fol­low­ing 175 Like Com­ment Share Home My Net­work Jobs Mes­saging Alban Thom liked Erik Piikkila’s com­ment on this Alban Thom. 1^st Sus­tain­able Forest Man­age­ment BSc 201mo … Busy times recre­at­ing wind throw for @rspb as part of #Cairngorm­scon­nect. Cre­at­ing #dead­wood hab­it­at for insects, cov­er for Caper­cail­lie chicks and by dis­turb­ing the soil a medi­um for tree seed­lings to grow. #wood­lan­decol …see more 114ha of Scots pine plant­a­tion restruc­tur­ing In the first 9 months of 2019: • The total value of con­tracts awar­ded across the CC part­ner­ship is over £632k. • over £55k has been spent on mater­i­als, equip­ment and ser­vices; £45k of this was spent with­in 50 miles of the pro­ject area. • CC part­ners spent over £2m in the pro­ject area. Like 828 Com­ments 1,475 Views Com­ment Share Most Relevant

Team of 10 new staff appoin­ted (9FTE), includ­ing 2 new Cairngorms Con­nect Stalk­ers with a cross-bound­ary remit.

Will Boyd-Wal­lis Becks Denny • • • 347 cut­tings col­lec­ted and planted in the Cairngorms Con­nect tree nurs­ery… …from 205 indi­vidu­al mont­ane wil­lows, of 5 dif­fer­ent spe­cies plus 2 hybrids. Leaf samples have been sent to the Roy­al Botan­ic Gar­dens Edin­burgh for genet­ic test­ing. This will inform fur­ther col­lec­tion and plant­ing, to ensure genet­ic diversity.

Staff and volun­teers have col­lec­ted downy birch seed from high­er-alti­tude stands of trees on Aber­nethy and Glen­more (500m+) and have sown these in the tree nurs­ery, where an ini­tial 210 seed­lings have become established.

Wild­land Lim­ited have estab­lished 550ha of new nat­ive wood­land plant­ing, accel­er­at­ing wood­land recov­ery far from seed sources.

CAT 298ha of blanket bog has been restored on Wild­land Lim­ited sites at Slo­chd Beag and Lynaber­ack, and a fur­ther 50ha at oth­er sites. Total 348ha. Thanks are due to Peat­land Action Fund and Peat­land Officers

2,084 DNA extrac­tions of pred­at­or scats now com­pleted – await­ing results!

Cairngorms Con­nect Con­fer­ence held atten­ded by 75 people from across the part­ner­ship £400k pledged by Anders Povlsen for a new appren­tice­ship scheme

Mon­it­or­ing Pro­jects Eco­lo­gic­al indic­at­ors • Test­ing inter­ven­tions Pro­jects • Seed source foci (Pip G) Phys­ic­al: Flood­plain res­tor­a­tion (Neil C) • • • • Hab­it­at: Wood­land expan­sion (Mark H) Spe­cies: Spe­cies indic­at­or (Pip G) Func­tion: Dead­wood beetles (Pip G) • • Eco­sys­tem ser­vices indic­at­ors • • Sup­port­ing: Ver­teb­rate food webs (Kenny Kort­land, FLS) Dead­wood cre­ation (Pip G) Rare plant invig­or­a­tion (Neil C) Trail re-align­ment (Kenny K) Emu­lat­ing miss­ing eco­sys­tem pro­cesses (Mark H) • Reg­u­lat­ing: Catch­ment res­tor­a­tion (Neil C) Soci­et­al bene­fits indic­at­ors • • • Eco­nom­ic: Con­tri­bu­tion of land­scape res­tor­a­tion to loc­al eco­nom­ies (Tom McK­enna, SNH) Edu­ca­tion / Capa­city: Empower­ment & influ­ence (Joelene H) Insti­tu­tion­al: Pub­lic atti­tudes to res­tor­a­tion (Joelene H)

Baselines for most of the mon­it­or­ing pro­jects are now complete

fic CON KONS HAM­ISH NAPI­ER THE WOODS Cean Purs­er copy­right ©2017 As a loc­al musi­cian, I am very grate­ful to ​‘Cairngorms Con­nect’ for this spe­cial oppor­tun­ity by spon­sor­ing me to com­pose this album of new Scot­tish music. I grew up right next to Anagach Woods in Grant­own and spent many hours of my child­hood play­ing there.

لا Win­ter­watch • Total of 23,863 people addressed dir­ectly about the pro­ject, in 2019. • 2.1m heard about it on Spring­watch 2019 • Great cov­er­age on Win­ter­watch 2020

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