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Annual Report 2019 – 2020 Annual Report 2019 – 2020 FOREST OF BOWLAND Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Contents View from the Chair ............................. 3 Infographic . 4 An Outstanding Landscape of Natural and Cultural Heritage ..................... 5 Resilient and Sustainable Communities .............. 9 A Strong Connection between People and the Landscape ......................... 12 Membership of the Joint Advisory Committee and Financial Summary 2019 / 20 . 15 Map of the Forest of Bowland AONB ............... 16 Contacts ...................................... 17 2 www.forestofbowland.com View from the Chair The Annual Report is of course our chance to look back over the last year’s work for the Forest of Bowland AONB Partnership. However, I cannot avoid mentioning the present I find myself in whilst writing this report. These are very challenging and uncertain times, with COVID–19 impacting on so much of our everyday lives. mongst all this uncertainty, I’m pleased to say that, as a Partnership, In other areas of Bowland, we’ve seen what has been very clear we are already delivering against many delivery of nature recovery work with A during lockdown restrictions of the proposals the Landscapes Review peatland and hay meadow restoration is the importance people place on report outlined, with projects and activity continuing via the Northern England Peat having access to the outdoors and either already underway or in the pipeline. Project, Pennine Peat LIFE and Bowland nature, whether that is a simple walk The following report will give you an insight Hay Time. Excitingly, we’re also now in a park near home, or visiting into just some of this fantastic work being engaged in working closely with local special landscapes like AONBs. delivered by AONB partner organisations farmers, testing how the Government’s and also the AONB and Pendle LP teams planned ‘Environmental Land Management The importance of these special based in Dunsop Bridge and Clitheroe. Scheme’ might be able to support ‘high landscapes and ensuring people have nature value’ farming in the AONB. access to them was clearly articulated We’ve seen further excellent progress within the (Glover) Landscapes Review with the Pendle Hill Landscape Partnership Clearly, there is still much in the report published last year. In addition including improved access and information Landscapes Review that is yet to be to people’s access and enjoyment of the provision in Downham, new woodlands implemented and it will fall upon newly titled ‘National Landscapes’, the planted across the LP area and provision Government, Defra, Natural England, report outlined other proposals for how of a wider range of opportunities for AONB Partnerships and National Parks AONBs and National Parks might evolve people to engage with their landscape to work together in the years ahead to and adapt to 21st century concerns, in and local heritage; whether that’s outdoor consider how all the outlined proposals particular addressing the twin crises of learning, training courses, creative events might be achieved. We very much look climate change and biodiversity loss. and engagement or volunteer groups forward to engaging with this process. working around the hill. County Councillor Albert Atkinson Chairman of the Forest of Bowland AONB Joint Advisory Committee County Councillor Albert Atkinson Annual Report 2019 – 2020 3 Infographic 2,700m 89 of overhead farmers/ power lines land managers 77businesses in our engaged REMOVED Sustainable Tourism Network hectares90 of peatland habitat restored 312 2,000+ volunteers 2,156m young people engaged giving their time through schools of hedgerow managed or planted 15ha planning species-rich grassland conserved or applications 19 enhanced appraised partnerships 105 influenced 4,968 206m attendances at events of dry stone wall restored 4 www.forestofbowland.com An Outstanding Landscape of Natural and Cultural Heritage Highlights for 2019 – 20 The Hay Time Rescue project engaged volunteers and Kew Five pairs of hen harriers settled on the United Utilities Millennium Seed Bank to grow local, sustainably sourced Bowland estate in 2019, all successfully fledging chicks seed into plug plants. 1,100 plants of three scarce species and 22 making it into the skies. One has to go back to (globe flower, saw-wort and melancholy thistle) were then 2007 to find a year with more hen harriers fledging. re-introduced in eight sites across the AONB, with over All the hen harriers that were fitted with satellite tags 16 hectares of meadows having restoration or enhancement in 2019 made it through the winter. Sadly, none of the work. Public events attracted 80 people, sharing seed young tagged birds from the 2018 season made it through collection and propagation knowledge with landowners to breed in 2019, with one bird being found shot dead within and outside the Forest of Bowland AONB, and on a shooting estate in Yorkshire. educated school children on the importance of wild flowers. Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] This year has seen the Pendle Hill Landscape Partnership The AONB is a partner in the Northern England Peat restore 206m of dry stone wall at Pendleside, Thorney Project restoring peat on several sites on the Abbeystead Bank and Hecklin farms on the slopes of Pendle Hill. Estate. During 2019 – 20 with funding from Defra, and The majority was carried out by master craftsman working with contractors Terra Firma, the project restored Peter Isherwood, with the remainder completed by 11.13ha of bare peat, blocked 7.15km of gully and completed volunteers under expert instruction from DSWA. We 9.22km of hag re-profiling on Hare Syke East and West. have also restored 2,156 m of hedgerow on six farms plus Almost 2,000 bags of brash were airlifted to site and additional lengths at Clarion House and by Ribblesdale will be used to stabilise existing peat and create a Young Farmers. Most hedges were laid in the traditional substrate for restoring vegetation. style, others were coppiced and some also re-planted. Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] Annual Report 2019 – 2020 5 An Outstanding Landscape of Natural and Cultural Heritage More details on page 8 Throughout 2019 and 2020, Wyre Rivers Trust have been OFGEM’s UVA Programme to remove intrusive In 2019 – 20, the Environment Agency worked in working on the Wyre Natural Flood Management project. overhead power lines in the landscape has continued this partnership with Wyre Rivers Trust and Ribble Rivers Trust Natural flood management is the use of natural processes year, with Electricity North West Ltd and the AONB to improve fisheries in the AONB. Improvements were to slow the flow of water. To do this the Trust have installed Unit working jointly to complete four schemes in the made to the culvert under the road from Dolphinholme leaky dams, riparian buffer strips, hedgerows and offline Brennand and Dunsop valleys and in the Cross o’ Greet to Abbeystead. The work involved fixing wooden baffles storage areas. By storing water in the upper catchment, area. These schemes have resulted in the removal of through the culvert bed to increase flow and depth, downstream water levels can be reduced, along with the over 3,000 metres of 11kV power lines and 80 metres making it easier for fish to travel through the culvert. flood peak. Much of the work has been carried out with of low voltage lines from the AONB landscape. And at Mossthwaite near Newton, fencing and tree the help of Wyre Coast and Countryside volunteers. planting excluded livestock, providing niche habitat and shading for the River Hodder. Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] Ribble Rivers Trust, as part of their Pendle Hill LP WINNS Despite challenging weather, 29 volunteers surveyed 19 Clarion House is a little bit of history tucked away under project, have been developing a new clough woodland sites across the Yorkshire Dales and Forest of Bowland Pendle between Newchurch and Roughlee. It is the last of along Twiston Beck, running northwards off Pendle Hill AONB as part of our Bee Walks. We recorded 2,110 its kind: a tea room-cum-meeting place established by early down towards Downham. The existing woodlands have bumblebees, of 11 species, including the scarcer bilberry socialists and built on a field purchased by a Community been added to, and pockets of species-rich grassland bumblebee. Numbers were lower than previous years, but Land Trust. The land is almost as interesting as the building protected. Five hectares of new woodland have been not at all sites – rather greatly reduced numbers at a few as it has not been farmed for over 100 years and retains a fenced and planted with 3,100 young native trees to create sites, which will be investigated this year. The wildflower wealth of species. Supported and guided by the Pendle Hill a strong linear pathway for biodiversity, and to reduce meadows are providing quality forage for bumblebees LP, volunteers have been undertaking surveys, recordings flood risk downstream. All of the trees were planted by and other invertebrates, with increased numbers in the and habitat management to conserve and enhance this volunteers and school children. traditional meadows over those intensively managed. wonderful place. Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected] 6 www.forestofbowland.com An Outstanding Landscape of Natural and Cultural Heritage Led by Mid Pennine Arts the Pendle Radicals project During nine sessions in Lancaster, Ribble Valley and Wyre is researching and celebrating our radical heritage. districts, 36 volunteers and trainees repaired 8m of dry A major project for 2019 was to curate and host an stone wall and laid 245m of hedge. Slaidburn was the exhibition of protest banners within the old Brierfield location for the Bowland leg of the annual Lancashire & Mill.
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