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The Ythan Project
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The following organisations were involved with the ythan Project:
Aberdeenshire Council – the Council was the lead partner for the project and was responsible for receiving grant money from the European Commission and ensuring that the project’s financial records were up to scratch.
Forest Enterprise – Forest Enterprise is now part of Forestry Commission Scotlend and was responsible for providing advice on forestry matters as well as undertaking a large scale project to remove some Norway spruce from the river banks at Gight Woods near Methlick Formartine Partnership – a local rural partnership made up of the 12 community councils of the Formartine region of Aberdeenshire. The partnership put together the original bid to the European Commission and then helped to provide a link to the local community Macaulay Land Use Research Institute – staff at the Macaulay Institute provided advice and assistance with the monitoring of local people’s responses to the project, as well as general advice on land use issues
River Restoration Centre – the RRC are based at Cranfield University in the south east of England, but they provided advice on the specialist aspects of the river restoration projects, through their local members who are based in this area
Scottish Environment Protection Agency – staff at SEPA provided advice on water quality matters, training in river habitat survey methods and analysed water samples taken from the tributaries of the Ythan Scottish Natural Heritage – staff at SNH provided advice on matters relating to the natural heritage of the river and the estuary. They are also responsible for the management of the nature reserve at the Ythan estuary.
Ythan District Fishery Board – the fishery board provided advice and assistance on all matters relating to the fish in the river, as well as passing on information to the owners of the fishing rights on the river
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