Wednesday, August 27, 2008

ICELANDIC VISITORS

We recently hosted a group of land managers from Iceland. They came to study woodland, and were particularly interested in native woodland management, so Glen Tanar pinewood was ideal study site. As they have only recently established their woodland, the issue of forest fire had not occurred to them: they were therefore intrigued by the work done in Glen Tanar on wildfire management.

Monday, August 18, 2008

eagle tracking


last year -2007- we fixed a radio tag onto an eagle chick to look at the range.
photo shows extent of this over a few days.

Friday, August 15, 2008

RECENT EVENTS

A couple of interesting 'visits': young Bahraini business people came to see how we are adapting to climate change. Group were managed bt Simon'three hands', an daccompanied by Fiona Chalmers from Cairngorms National Park Authority, and Bill Slee from Macaulay Institute. See pix.
Beginning of August we had Europarc Junior Ranger Camp: young folk from Europe's protected areas, spending a week enjoying/exploring/conserving here on Royal Deeside. See vids.

Sunday, August 10, 2008

FIRST POST

This blog will give news on Glen Tanar from the Ranger Service perspective. We will post what we think is interesting: let us know if you find it of interest.
EGB, HEAD RANGER