Argyll Rainforest Restoration - Squad Supervisor

[Knoydart]

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Lead, Inspire, Restore: Become Our Rainforest Squad Supervisor | Argyll and the Isles Coast and Countryside Trust

WWW.ACT-NOW.ORG.UK

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Looking for a role where you can make a real difference? At Argyll Countryside Trust (ACT), we’re not just restoring landscapes; we’re creating opportunities for people and nature...

 

[Muddy42]

another 'magic' public money rewilding job.  Please share with the traditional stalkers, gamekeepers, ghillies and estate workers that are loosing their livelihoods.

[Stere]

 

What does   the actual job involve anyway, is it just clearing the woodlands of invasives and non natives??

 

Hard to decipher the all the waffle....

 

 

 

Edited yesterday at 15:30 by Stere

[Knoydart]

2 hours ago, Muddy42 said:

another 'magic' public money rewilding job.  Please share with the traditional stalkers, gamekeepers, ghillies and estate workers that are loosing their livelihoods.

 

Hi, this is available for anyone to apply. This is about boosting employment and entry level positions in a remote and often disadvantaged part of the UK. Not sure what livelihoods will be disrupted by clearing rhododendron from rainforest habitat, but happy to discuss.

Edited yesterday at 17:07 by Knoydart

[Knoydart]

1 hour ago, Stere said:

 

What does   the actual job involve anyway, is it just clearing the woodlands of invasives and non natives??

 

Hard to decipher the all the waffle....

 

Focus and current contract commitments are clearing rhododendron from rainforest habitat and ongoing maintenance of new planting. Hope is that as the team develops and gains experience they will take on a broader range of forestry and habitat restoration work.

[Mick Dempsey]

1 minute ago, Knoydart said:

 

Focus and current contract commitments are clearing rhododendron from rainforest habitat and ongoing maintenance of new planting. Hope is that as the team develops and gains experience they will take on a broader range of forestry and habitat restoration work.

Out of curiosity, how are you preventing re-growth? Poison, spray, uprooting?

[Knoydart]

1 minute ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Out of curiosity, how are you preventing re-growth? Poison, spray, uprooting?

 

Hi. Mix of methodologies, but prioritised as 1) Stem injection or lever & mulch (uprooting). 2) cut and stump treatment. Glyphosate is the chemical of choice. All need a comprehensive follow up program using multiple techniques including knapsack spraying, seedling removal and lever & mulch. There is a whole pile of IRATA spec in this part of the world also.

[AHPP]

3 hours ago, Knoydart said:

 

Hi, this is available for anyone to apply. This is about boosting employment and entry level positions in a remote and often disadvantaged part of the UK. Not sure what livelihoods will be disrupted by clearing rhododendron from rainforest habitat, but happy to discuss.

 

This kind of bullshit takes people like stalkers out of stable, long term lifestyle jobs, often with a cottage etc and into your brave new world of fixed term dolescum work, which may or may not be here next year once the consultants have leached most of the funding out of whatever the charity is this week. Sod off.

[Knoydart]

13 minutes ago, AHPP said:

 

This kind of bullshit takes people like stalkers out of stable, long term lifestyle jobs, often with a cottage etc and into your brave new world of fixed term dolescum work, which may or may not be here next year once the consultants have leached most of the funding out of whatever the charity is this week. Sod off.

 

I'm just here to try and give someone who has been on the saw a wee while, a crack at leading a team of trainees in mainly, cutting rhodies innthe rainforest. I'm really not sure about all the ire here. I think you've got the wrong impression fella. Noone is getting displaced here and I'm really not sure why anyone would think otherwise. 

Edited yesterday at 20:07 by Knoydart

[peds]

I think it sounds lovely, and exactly the sort of thing that we need more of.

 

Don't mind Alex there, he's mourning a lynx.