The colours of a summer bog
As we look ahead to brighter weather in the coming months, I thought it would be nice to reflect on the wonders that a summer bog provides.
As we look ahead to brighter weather in the coming months, I thought it would be nice to reflect on the wonders that a summer bog provides.
There is more than meets the eye when gazing upon a blanket bog (upland peat bog) carpeted in sphagnum moss, shrubs and sedges.
The 2021/22 report from Yorkshire Peat Partnership identified that in total approximately 6,500 ha of foot surveys have been completed by the team since 2009.
Peat cores evidence thousands of years of climate and environmental change. So, what are our cores telling us about Yorkshire’s landscape?
Hi! I’m Lucy and I joined Yorkshire Peat Partnership as the GIS & Remote Sensing Assistant last year. I have loved my time at YPP so far, but I think my experience is best introduced by the…
We're curating an exhibition at the Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes, look at thousands of years of peatland history in the Yorkshire Dales.
Two years ago we began restoration work on a site we have come to know as ‘East Gill’.