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JOHN CRAVEN

Dumping dead trees and deer bones into a river might at first seem a bizarre way of improving the health of its waters – but it’s working on the royal Balmoral Estate.

The trees create new habitats and improve flow on the River Muick (pronounced Mick) and the bones boost levels of phosphate, so no-one is taking

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