Guest Blog For Summit Clothing
A few weeks ago the folks at Summit Clothing asked for my opinion on a couple of interesting conservation and sustainability issues.
Fieldwork in the Scottish Highlands
It's remarkably easy to sit in a centrally heated office, cosily hatching plans through the Winter. Distances look shorter, methods seem simpler and the prospect of a summer of fieldwork in the hills sounds positively straight forward.
Looking out for Dwarf Birch
Trees are often overlooked at the best of times, in favor of the more exciting and exotic wildlife that lives among them.
A Week on the Hills
One of the subtleties of the Scottish landscape is that everything is described as a hill. I've spent the last week up there (in the rain) on a variety of those hills doing a final spot of fieldwork before Winter closes in and covers everything in a few feet of snow.
The PhD Plunge
I'm heading North to start a new project on Scotland's montane woodlands
Sledges and the Countryside
Here in the UK we have huge sprawling cities, tens of millions of people and all the trappings of civilization. As such, I am hugely relieved that one can spend four days traveling, even with a car, and still regain that same sense of adventure that you might find half way around the world..
The Scott Scholarship Sledge Pull [Reccy!]
I am writing from the banks of Loch Ness en route ever further North, to the very top of our Island. Come September, John O Groats will mark the starting point for one of the largest collaborative fundraising challenges the nation has ever seen.