As usual a fantastic article and beautifully composed photos that transport you to the place!! This is an important message, peatlands are important and restoring them can be very hard but the rewards are vast. Every restoration project there will be lessons learned and things that will inform future efforts. Thanks for the fantastic article, it looks like it was an amazing trip.
Hopefully someday I will be lucky enough to visit and see these peatlands.
Lovely story. In the Australian Alps there's a very similar ecosystem, but the main threat has been cattle and horse grazing. After a hundred years, they finally removed the cattle grazing from the national parks, but wild horses and other introduced hard hooved animals are still causing significant damage. Bogs are important for retaining the snow melt for summer water flows, and are hugely diverse with one of the most interesting species being the Corroboree frog: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corroboree_frog
That was great Jack, thanks. So many mistakes were made in the past, often with the best of intentions but borne out of an attitude that nature only exists to support our economic needs. Ella McSweeney wrote a good piece in the Irish Times on Saturday about attempts to restore blanket bogs in the west of Ireland which were drained for monoculture forestry, hopefully you don't mind me linking here: https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/2024/04/20/restoring-bogs-is-more-complex-than-just-removing-trees/
This is so interesting. Love the full bleed pictures too, it really brings your words to life.
As usual a fantastic article and beautifully composed photos that transport you to the place!! This is an important message, peatlands are important and restoring them can be very hard but the rewards are vast. Every restoration project there will be lessons learned and things that will inform future efforts. Thanks for the fantastic article, it looks like it was an amazing trip.
Hopefully someday I will be lucky enough to visit and see these peatlands.
How were the rocks and other materials transported to locations within Fleet Moss?
Living in Colorado, USA, where our average rainfall is 15 inches, this is about as opposite a landscape as I can imagine.
What a profoundly beautiful read. A true ode to the bog! Thank you for an insightful article and equally insightful photos.
To be honest, I'm convinced Jenny and Lyndon happen to have one of the best jobs on the planet.
Lovely story. In the Australian Alps there's a very similar ecosystem, but the main threat has been cattle and horse grazing. After a hundred years, they finally removed the cattle grazing from the national parks, but wild horses and other introduced hard hooved animals are still causing significant damage. Bogs are important for retaining the snow melt for summer water flows, and are hugely diverse with one of the most interesting species being the Corroboree frog: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corroboree_frog
That was great Jack, thanks. So many mistakes were made in the past, often with the best of intentions but borne out of an attitude that nature only exists to support our economic needs. Ella McSweeney wrote a good piece in the Irish Times on Saturday about attempts to restore blanket bogs in the west of Ireland which were drained for monoculture forestry, hopefully you don't mind me linking here: https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/2024/04/20/restoring-bogs-is-more-complex-than-just-removing-trees/
Thanks for sharing this interesting story. Love the imagery!