That's great, people fetishise those weirdly barren uplands which are purely a man-made landscape designed for sheep (one of my first geomorphology fieldtrips was up that way and you can see the different phases in alluvial fans - Neolithic tree clearances, the Viking introduction of sheep, etc). This will not only improve nature but slow the run-off of rainwater.
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‘A 100-year vision’: Skiddaw’s barren peak to spring to life in ambitious rewilding
(www.theguardian.com)
What an amazing sounding project!
Wildlife poised to return to Skiddaw includes hen harriers, black grouse – which vanished from these fells relatively recently – water voles, aspen and rare upland bumblebees.
Really cool!
this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2024
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