Because thicket has much more biodiversity, and bog absorbs serious amounts of carbon (more than trees), as well as being an interesting habitat. Overgrazed moor is dull dull dull and contributes to … (View Post)

Lol, fair enough! I assumed they'd lock it down. I've only been there in the middle of winter when the big place would probably be a bit chilly, although of course there are a few hideaways… (View Post)

The tree line is at 600m altitude in the Cairngorms, and probably not a vast amount lower elsewhere. It isn't the weather in Sutherland that causes the lack of trees, it is the lack of wolves an… (View Post)

Yup. Can't be long before it is all handheld and sequencing can be done in the field. A student was sequencing Nightjar droppings here in the Flatlands to work out which moths they were eating, … (View Post)

As a some time storm chaser, I respect lightning. (View Post)