Assessing the effects of Higher Level Stewardship options on lowland heathlands and its priority species, with a particular focus on grazing effects
What the buyer wrote
Evidence Programme Ref 22257 To deliver the following objectives: a) To produce a methodology to determine the extent to which HLS has (a) delivered an improvement in lowland heathland condition; (b) been appropriately targeted. This will be achieved by using a combination of field survey, and comparison with earlier survey material. b) To use the developed methodology on an appropriate sample of HLS agreements on lowland heathlands to assess the most common management options (grazing, cutting, burning and chemical control of bracken/scrub), with particular focus on grazing, and evaluate their success in terms of progress towards, or achievement of Favourable Condition (FC) for the …
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- What the buyer calls it
- Assessing the effects of Higher Level Stewardship options on lowland heathlands and its priority species, with a particular focus on grazing effects
- How they are buying
- Advertised, shortlist firstSuppliers applied to be considered, and the buyer picked who went on to bid.
- Type
- services
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 6 Sep 2015
- Work ends
- 28 Mar 2017
Who the buyer named
Emma Roberts was the named contact on this notice.