Leaders in mechanised habitat translocation, restoration and creation
Leaders in mechanised habitat translocation, restoration and creation
Equipped to Deliver with low ground pressure excavators to amphibious machinery - specialist kit for the UK's most demanding sites
Equipped to Deliver with low ground pressure excavators to amphibious machinery - specialist kit for the UK's most demanding sites
Equipped to Deliver with low ground pressure excavators to amphibious machinery - specialist kit for the UK's most demanding sites
Equipped to Deliver with low ground pressure excavators to amphibious machinery - specialist kit for the UK's most demanding sites
Equipped to Deliver with low ground pressure excavators to amphibious machinery - specialist kit for the UK's most demanding sites
Equipped to Deliver with low ground pressure excavators to amphibious machinery - specialist kit for the UK's most demanding sites
Equipped to Deliver with low ground pressure excavators to amphibious machinery - specialist kit for the UK's most demanding sites
Alaska Ecological Contracting carries out landscape-scale habitat creation, restoration, and translocation across the United Kingdom. Using the latest machinery, including low ground pressure tracked excavators with tilt rotators for buckets and attachments, we undertake works for the benefit of landscape and wildlife on ecologically sensitive sites.
Our nature reserve management works include river restoration, watercourse and wetland creation and restoration, pond creation and restoration, ditch creation and maintenance, reedbed lowering, scrub clearance, stump grinding and splitting, seed harvesting, heather brash harvesting and spreading, and rewilding schemes. For development projects, we provide ecological mitigation habitat creation and translocation of grassland, heathland woodland, and ponds.
Clients Include
Natural England, Forestry England, Environment Agency, RSPB, The National Trust, Wildlife Trusts, Council Authorities, National Parks Authorities, Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (ARC), Wessex Water, ecological consultants, construction companies, quarry operators, housing developers, country estates and private clients.
Alaska Ecological Contracting carries out landscape-scale habitat creation, restoration, and translocation across the United Kingdom. Using the latest machinery, including low ground pressure tracked excavators with tilt rotators for buckets and attachments, we undertake works for the benefit of landscape and wildlife on ecologically sensitive sites.
Our nature reserve management works include river restoration, watercourse and wetland creation and restoration, pond creation and restoration, ditch creation and maintenance, reedbed lowering, scrub clearance, stump grinding and splitting, seed harvesting, heather brash harvesting and spreading, and rewilding schemes. For development projects, we provide ecological mitigation habitat creation and translocation of grassland, heathland woodland, and ponds.
Clients Include
Natural England, Forestry England, Environment Agency, RSPB, The National Trust, Wildlife Trusts, Council Authorities, National Parks Authorities, Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (ARC), Wessex Water, ecological consultants, construction companies, quarry operators, housing developers, country estates and private clients.
Equipped to Deliver with low ground pressure excavators to amphibious machinery - specialist kit for the UK's most demanding sites
Alaska Ecological Contracting carries out landscape-scale habitat creation, restoration, and translocation across the United Kingdom. Using the latest machinery, including low ground pressure tracked excavators with tilt rotators for buckets and attachments, we undertake works for the benefit of landscape and wildlife on ecologically sensitive sites.
Our nature reserve management works include river restoration, watercourse and wetland creation and restoration, pond creation and restoration, ditch creation and maintenance, reedbed lowering, scrub clearance, stump grinding and splitting, seed harvesting, heather brash harvesting and spreading, and rewilding schemes. For development projects, we provide ecological mitigation habitat creation and translocation of grassland, heathland woodland, and ponds.
Clients Include
Natural England, Forestry England, Environment Agency, RSPB, The National Trust, Wildlife Trusts, Council Authorities, National Parks Authorities, Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (ARC), Wessex Water, ecological consultants, construction companies, quarry operators, housing developers, country estates and private clients.
Translocation of Grassland, Heathland and Woodland
Grassland and heathland can be translocated as macro turves measuring 2.4 m x 1.2 m x the full depth of the root zone/top soil.
Soil translocation is an option for sparsely vegetated areas. Woodlands are translocated as soils and coppiced tree stumps in large rootball buckets. Photo: grassland translocation for EA Arne Moors Project, Poole Harbour.
Services Include
Services Include
Translocation of Grassland, Heathland and Woodland
Translocation of Grassland, Heathland and Woodland
Grassland and heathland can be translocated as macro turves measuring 2.4 m x 1.2 m x the full depth of the root zone/top soil.
Soil translocation is an option for sparsely vegetated areas. Woodlands are translocated as soils and coppiced tree stumps in large rootball buckets. Photo: grassland translocation for EA Arne Moors Project, Poole Harbour.
Peatland and Moorland Restoration
Peatland and Moorland Restoration
Various elements of peatland and moorland restoration can include scrub clearance, mulching of molinia tussocks, ditch blocking using spoil banks, macro turves, wooden dams, woody debris dams, plastic piling, heather bales, spoil won from pond and scrape creation, and cell bunding with earth or timber.
Several hectares of moorland restored on Dartmoor, Exmoor and Peak District National Parks by ditch blocking. Photo: Dorset Peat Partnership, RSPB Salterns Copse, Arne Nature Reserve.
Various elements of peatland and moorland restoration can include scrub clearance, mulching of molinia tussocks, ditch blocking using spoil banks, macro turves, wooden dams, woody debris dams, plastic piling, heather bales, spoil won from pond and scrape creation, and cell bunding with earth or timber.
Several hectares of moorland restored on Dartmoor, Exmoor and Peak District National Parks by ditch blocking. Photo: Dorset Peat Partnership, RSPB Salterns Copse, Arne Nature Reserve.
River Restoration
Meander creation and bed level raising, creation of riffles, pools and berms within the channel. Installation of ford crossings, culvert crossings, vented causeways, water level control structures, rock armour, rip rap, coir rolls and coir blankets.
Stage 0 river river restoration - complete infill. Works carried out for RSPB Scotland Loch of Strathbeg, Forestry England New Forest SSSI Wetland Restoration, Dorset Wildlife Trust rewilding site at Wild Woodbury, National Trust Holnicote Estate, Corporation of London Ashtead Common, and the River Bollin at Manchester Airport. Photo: New Forest SSSI Wetland Restoration, Forestry England.
Wetland Restoration
This can involve scrub clearance as well as hydrological restoration of channels, along with creation of open water, ditch maintenance and ditch blocking to rewet the site.
Scrub clearance can be with amphibious excavator or low ground pressure excavators with disposal methods including burning, or extraction by rubber tracked dump truck and low ground pressure timber forwarder, or at times extraction by winching, barge or even narrow gauge railway! Photo: Scrub cut with tree shear then extracted by RTD. Greywell Moors, Hants & IOW Wildlife Trust.
This can involve scrub clearance as well as hydrological restoration of channels, along with creation of open water, ditch maintenance and ditch blocking to rewet the site.
Scrub clearance can be with amphibious excavator or low ground pressure excavators with disposal methods including burning, or extraction by rubber tracked dump truck and low ground pressure timber forwarder, or at times extraction by winching, barge or even narrow gauge railway! Photo: Scrub cut with tree shear then extracted by RTD. Greywell Moors, Hants & IOW Wildlife Trust.
Vegetation Management
Tractors and excavators with flail and flail collector attachments. ATV towed mowers. Scrub and trees cleared with tree shear and/or chainsaw. Scrub can be flailed or cut with arisings removed or left insitu.
Arisings can be used for timber products or processed by chipping to be used on site for track resurfacing or biomass fuel. Stumps can be removed or ground down to or below ground level. Tractor and Rytec Flail Collector cut and collect bracken and young gorse clearance on Corfe Common for grassland restoration, National Trust.
Creation and desilting of Lakes, Ponds, Pools and Scrapes
Desilting of lakes and ponds by amphibious excavator and moving of silt by barges and mud pumping. Location such as Poole Park Lake, Leighton Moss and Encombe House.
Lakes and pond creation on sites that will naturally hold water or form ephemeral ponds. Reed bed lowering to create open water, creation of large shallow ponds (scrapes) for wading birds. Photo: Creation of bog pools at Moors Valley Country Park, Forestry England.
Desilting of lakes and ponds by amphibious excavator and moving of silt by barges and mud pumping. Location such as Poole Park Lake, Leighton Moss and Encombe House.
Lakes and pond creation on sites that will naturally hold water or form ephemeral ponds. Reed bed lowering to create open water, creation of large shallow ponds (scrapes) for wading birds. Photo: Creation of bog pools at Moors Valley Country Park, Forestry England.
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Copyright © 2026 Alaska Ecological Contracting Ltd
All Rights Reserved
Copyright © 2026 Alaska Ecological Contracting Ltd All Rights Reserved
Copyright © 2026 Alaska Ecological Contracting Ltd All Rights Reserved
Copyright © 2026 Alaska Ecological Contracting Ltd All Rights Reserved
Copyright © 2026 Alaska Ecological Contracting Ltd All Rights Reserved
River Restoration
Meander creation and bed level raising, creation of riffles, pools and berms within the channel. Installation of ford crossings, culvert crossings, vented causeways, water level control structures, rock armour, rip rap, coir rolls and coir blankets.
Stage 0 river river restoration - complete infill. Works carried out for RSPB Scotland Loch of Strathbeg, Forestry England New Forest SSSI Wetland Restoration, Dorset Wildlife Trust rewilding site at Wild Woodbury, National Trust Holnicote Estate, Corporation of London Ashtead Common, and the River Bollin at Manchester Airport. Photo: New Forest SSSI Wetland Restoration, Forestry England.
Vegetation Management
Tractors and excavators with flail and flail collector attachments. ATV towed mowers. Scrub and trees cleared with tree shear and/or chainsaw. Scrub can be flailed or cut with arisings removed or left insitu.
Arisings can be used for timber products or processed by chipping to be used on site for track resurfacing or biomass fuel. Stumps can be removed or ground down to or below ground level. Tractor and Rytec Flail Collector cut and collect bracken and young gorse clearance on Corfe Common for grassland restoration, National Trust.