Doing what I do best - monitoring #montane #willows ! Today I checked on these Downy Willow (Salix lapponum) that we planted at #Corrour a year ago with TreeSurv. The sun has been shining & the results are looking good; happy days!! 🤩🤗🌞🌿 #montane scrub #restoration

I’m having a totally awesome day in the field at #Corrour . I don’t ever want to get to a stage in my career where I don’t have the opportunity to do #fieldwork ! It’s just wonderful out here! 🤩💪🤗😍 #montanescrub #restoration #DownyWillow

Received FIREPOT delivery for next extreme Montane planting adventure Mar Lodge Estate National Nature Reserve NTS . Camping on site 4-5 nights and a good few hours walk from transport so need to be well provisioned!
Great weather last year, fingers crossed for this year🤞
#rewilding
#nativeplanting

I'm really looking forward to presenting my #research tomorrow at the BES Stirling Stirling Natural Sciences #PhD symposium, titled: ' #Mycorrhizal cliffhanger! Exploring the #fungi co-occurring with #montane #willow scrub in Scotland using #eDNA #metabarcoding ' 🤗💪🍄🌿 #Corrour

Join us in Fort William on 17 May for the launch of Loch Abar Mòr: a new nature restoration partnership within Lochaber, aiming to create a landscape-scale mosaic of habitats, in which people work & live with a sense of pride & belonging. Book your place: bit.ly/4aZD6AS

So lovely to see the young plants in our #montane #willow seed stand planted last month at #Corrour looking very healthy ready for the summer. The #catkins are being visited by #hoverflies & #bumblebees , & we could even get some seed this year!
#DownyWillowSeedStand #montane scrub

A curiosity I see in the Cairngorms is juniper apparently acting as a nurse plant for other trees, like gorse does at lower altitudes. I wondered whether this might just be observer bias, but it is recorded widely in the literature across Europe e.g. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 1/2

All plants in our new #montane #willow seed stand at #Corrour are catalogued with details of the individual wild plants used to take cuttings. Now we can collect seed from this site rather than visiting remote cliff-ledge relict populations! #DownyWillowSeedStand Trees for Life

I'm thrilled to have planted #Corrour 's #montane #willow seed stand! We collected Downy Willow cuttings from across the estate & they've been grown by Trees for Life. Now we can upscale seed production for habitat #restoration , from the largest #DownyWillowSeedStand in Britain!

Willow delivery for Corrour Estate! 🌱

These bags hold a future montane scrub habitat, ready to support the return of biodiversity to high-altitude places on Scotland's west coast.

Good luck with the planting, folks 🌦️

They're here! Our very own precious Downy Willow (Salix lapponum) cuttings from #Corrour ready for planting in our montane willow seed stand! 🤗🥰🤩💪Trees for Life
#DownyWillowSeedStand #montanescrub #restoration #treeplanting

With a little help, montane scrub is only too happy to return to Scotland's hillsides.

We're thrilled to see Dundreggan-grown willows thriving at Mar Lodge Estate National Nature Reserve NTS in the Cairngorms. Recent surveying showed an almost 100%-success rate for planted trees!

📸Shaila Rao + Treesurv

Ground prep under way ready for assembling our first #montane #willow seed stand at #Corrour . I'm so excited to get our precious rare plants in the ground for upscaling #restoration action! 🤗🤩 Trees for Life
#DownyWillowSeedStand #montane scrub #mountainwoodland

I'm buzzing after a great day University of Stirling presenting some of my initial #PhD results to my department BES Stirling Stirling Natural Sciences. 6+ years of the Dwarf Birch (Betula nana) planting trial are producing exciting data. Great to get feedback on my #research from my colleagues! 🤗

Lovely morning out on the hill at Glen Finglas Woodland Trust🌳 GreatTrossachsForest to monitor the Dwarf Birch (Betula nana) planted for my #PhD experiment Stirling Natural Sciences Woodland Trust Scotland. Good timing too as these data are going straight into a presentation I'm giving tomorrow BES Stirling! 🤩💪

Flick through Ellie’s complete notebook from her UKTreescapes fellowship in Norway, working alongside scientists at NINA naturforskning, on our website and get a glimpse into this possible, future landscape:
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I'm so excited for a delivery we'll be receiving at #Corrour next week from Trees for Life! A couple of years in the planning involving collecting #montane #willow cuttings from some very tricky locations 👀🤯🤩🤗 More updates to follow...!
Lower two photos by Mark Hamblin

Aspen is common across Europe, yet could be considered Scotland’s lost tree. Over centuries, nature has slipped away. Restoring aspen to our landscape, with all its life-giving characteristics, will put a piece of the ecological jigsaw back in place. #PaintingScotlandYellow

#Fieldwork today at #Corrour monitoring winter survival & browsing of the Dwarf Birch (Betula nana) in my #PhD planting experiment Stirling Natural Sciences. Only one more round of growth measurements to go at the end of this year & then it's a wrap! 🤯🤗

A great haul of 15 new #aspen clones from Estate Office Sarah Watts and Isle of Eigg by Beth for our national collection. We hope to replicate these and provide back to donor sites. #paintingscotlandyellow