Hello there! I'm Hayley and I'm the Caledonian Pinewood Invertebrates apprentice. I'm going to be based with the pinewood research team at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (soon to be the James Hutton Institute) in ...
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Well at least a new record! These little brown fungi seem sometimes to escape recording. Who knows how long its been around defying those who dare to collect and record it! I've spent a lot of time this month identifying ...
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Hello again! Well it's been a busy winter even with the snow and ice. I was in the office or doing ID work for some of the time, then it was straight back out onto the reserve to do some felling and some ATV work and also ...
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Hello everybody! My name is Daisy, and I'm the new lowland raised bog apprentice. Woohoo!!! I'm based in Stirling, and will be checking out bogs in the Stirling and Falkirk areas (and maybe some further afield). I will be ...
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Hello Hello!!! It has been really quite a long time since my last blog, many apologies...I blame the snow?! I can do that because I live in the Highlands! Well yes let's catch up! The end of 2010 was jam packed with lots ...
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