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Wet Woods Restoration Project - Final Technical Report

LIFE Project No. B4-3200/98/516

Author: Compiled by Scottish Natural Heritage on behalf of Scottish Natural Heritage
Forest Enterprise, Forestry Commission, The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and Highland Birchwoods

October 2002

Table of Contents: Some key sections of the report are available online as web pages (). All other sections are available as a single downloadable document in Adobe Acrobat PDF format ().
Contents

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1. Introduction

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1.1 Background to the Project. 
1.2 Overview of the main conservation issues being addressed 
1.3 Summary of the project's objectives and expected results
2. Overall project summary   PDF (470kb)

2.1 Actions undertaken

2.2 Overall assessment

2.3 Future

3. Detailed report of activities    
3.1 Preparatory actions and management plans    PDF (470kb)
3.2 Non-recurring biotope management    PDF (470kb)

3.2.1 Monadh Mor

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3.2.2 Inshriach

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3.2.3 Mondhuie

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3.2.4 North Abernethy

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3.2.5 Dell Wood

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3.2.6 Garten Wood

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3.2.7 Pitmaduthy

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3.2.8 Conon

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3.2.9 Lower Spey Bay

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3.2.10 Management of Brash

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3.3 Public awareness and dissemination of results    PDF (470kb)

3.3.1 Monadh Mor

3.3.2 Inshriach

3.3.3 Abernethy (all sites including Mondhuie, Garten Wood, Dell Wood and North Abernethy)

3.3.4 Pitmaduthy

3.3.5 Conon

3.3.6 Lower Spey Bay

3.3.7 General

3.3.8 Conference

3.3.9 Wet Woods Web Site

3.3.10 Overview

3.4 Research   PDF (470kb)

3.4.1 Hydrological and historical survey of Project bog woodland sites

3.4.2 Costed options for Pitmaduthy Moss

3.4.3 Monadh Mor: Impact of bog woodland restoration on adjacent land surrounding the Newlands of Ferrintosh

3.4.4 Impact of bog woodland restoration on adjacent land surrounding Mondhuie

3.4.5 Classification of bog woodland habitat and review and analysis of restoration management at the RSPB Abernethy Forest Reserve

3.4.6 A survey of the peat stratigraphy of seven bog woodland sites in Scotland

3.4.7 Age structure of Scots pine woodland

3.4.8 Historical survey of the River Conon

3.4.9 The residual alder woodlands of the River Conon

3.4.10 Research overview

3.5 Monitoring

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4. Overall project assessment PDF (470kb)

4.1 Has the project achieved its objectives? Successes and failures

4.2 Conservation benefits

4.3 Incentive/pump-priming effects and networking

4.4 Demonstration and benefits of EU funding

4.5 Socio-economic effects

4.6 The future: prolonging the effects of the project/further action needed

5. List of identifiable products

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5.1 With second interim report October 2000

5.2 With third interim report December 2001

5.3 With final report October 2002

5.4 Photographs

Acknowledgements

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Maps (not yet available - to be added soon)

   

Annex A: Draft Bog Woodland Site Condition Monitoring Methods

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