WORK has been completed on the second phase of a major project to tackle climate change by restoring vital peat bogs on Luss Estates in Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, writes David McPhee.
The joint project between the park authority and the estates, saw six weeks of work carried out over an area of 80 hectares on Beinn Dubh and Mid Hill, above Glen Luss.
The £65,800 project, funded by Scottish Natural Heritage’s Peatland Action Fund, involved re-profiling peat hags, and also blocking gullies, building peat dams and establishing vegetation over areas of bare peat in order to prevent peat from drying out and releasing carbon into the atmosphere.