Sustainable Bank Protection: regrading with large trees and willow
Regrading banks and willow planting in the Scottish Borders
How can you cope with a high energy river that is eroding a bank and threatening to deviate into one of your best fields?
Walter Douglas from Carlinrig Farm, discusses the problem faced by the farm from the River Teviot. Helen Reid, SEPA. explains how the implementation of sustainable bank protection methods has helped protect fields and allowed the farm to work with the river.
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