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Demonstration Moors in England and Wales - BD1233
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Description
The national objective is to set up four sites of good moorland management practices representative of different biogeographic zones in England and Wales. |
Objective
The overall objective is to transfer results of scientific work on moorland management and regeneration to the user-audience by creating a set of four main regional sites where the problems of moorland management for agriculture, biodiversity and landscape quality can be [a] identified [b] addressed [c] costed and [d] results disseminated to the said user-audience.
The sub-objectives are:
a] to enhance sustainable dwarf shrub heath communities
b] to maintain and improve biodiversity
c] to maintain and improve the productivity of domestic animals
d] to demonstrate on a farm scale the steps necessary to convert “white” moorland dominated by both Nardus stricta and Molinia caerulea to grass/heath mixtures
e] to improve the legal methods of corvid and fox control, where appropriate
f] to change the sheep and cattle husbandry system, where appropriate, in such a way that sheep ticks Ixodes ricinus [if present] are disadvantaged
g] to hold Open & Training days on up to 20 days per year over all sites, but not exceeding 4 per site per year.
These operations [also listed under 7] will be carried out on a farm-scale on areas typical of each of the four biogeographic zones listed [ see 10a ].
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Project Documents
• Final Report : Demonstration Moors in England and Wales
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Time-Scale and Cost
From:
2001
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To:
2006
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Cost: £397,659 |
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Contractor / Funded Organisations
Heather Trust, The |
Keywords
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Fields of Study
Environmental Stewardship |