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Nature in Charge14 October 2005
Wildland Prospects in the North Pennines
Peter Samsom
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Background• AONB Management
Plan context
• NE Regional Forest Strategy
• Proposed actions
• Partners- theory and practice
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Character of the area
• Already perceived as very wild
• Off-putting to members of the public and local communities
• Large landed estates- grouse shooting, Common Land and Open Access under CROW
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Three pronged approach
Woodland expansion
•Assessment of existing woodlands•Mapping•Identification of opportunities for linkages•Landscape considerations•Funding and facilitation
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Three pronged approach
Woodland expansion
• RSPB Geltsdale- Bruthwaite planting
• Black Grouse recovery project
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Three pronged approach (2)
Peatscapes• Restore and enhance
blanket bog resources in the North Pennines
• Celebrating the resource
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Three pronged approach (3)
Minimal intervention sites• Landownership and
value• But… changing CAP
and uncertainty• More mapping
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Wildland characteristics
Mapping work bringing together wildland characteristics and landscape factors
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Conclusions
• Without public or NGO ownership large sites are unlikely to materialise
• But opportunities to make areas wilder than they are now through landscape scale approach to woodland establishment and peatscapes restoration
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Peter SamsomNorth Pennines AONB Partnership