Pennine PeatLIFE

Pennine PeatLIFE is a four-year peatland restoration project run in partnership by the North Restoration methods Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Partnership, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and the Hydrology — Stabilise the heather Calluna vulgaris , Forest of Bowland AONB Partnership. It aims to restore damaged peatlands across three 1water table and prevent further cottongrasses Eriophorum protected landscapes in the North of England. erosion caused by water. Stone angustifolium/ vaginatum and dams will be used along with coir other dwarf shrubs. Pennine PeatLIFE covers the North rolls/heather bales for smaller Scotland Project aims Pennines AONB, the Yorkshire Dales England channels. Kickstarting growth – National Park and the Forest of North Pennines AONB Pennine PeatLIFE will determine the most cost-effective payment for 4Lime (1tn per ha) is added along Bowland AONB. Funded by the ecosystem services restoration approach by: with phosphate based fertiliser EU LIFE programme with match funding Yorkshire Dales National Park 1. Demonstrating financially viable region-specific and sustainable (19.5kg per ha) and moorland from the Environment Agency, Sphagnum -based restoration techniques for re-activating peat- Forest of Bowland AONB seed which includes Descampsai Yorkshire Water, Northumbrian Water forming blanket bog in the wetter, colder and higher altitude eroding flexuosa, Festuca ovina and Limited and United Utilities, this bog systems of northern England. Eriophorum partnership is working at a landscape scale to restore 1,353ha of bare 2. Demonstrating, through ‘Concept to Contract’ trials, the UK Peatland angustifolium/vaginatum. and degraded peat over the next four years (2017-2021). Stone dams Code as a viable payment for ecosystem services in upland peatlands. The peat bogs along this northern Sphagnum moss — chain are quite different from other 3. Demonstrating new approaches 5Sphagnum is key to restoration upland bogs in the north of England as using unmanned aerial vehicles and revegetation. This includes they still have a good level of (UAV) to assess vegetation fragments from the brash, whole Sphagnum moss. They are higher in change as a proxy for Sphagnum clumps or altitude, have a higher rainfall, lower monitoring the change in harvested temperatures and have shortened ecosystem services benefits of Mean temperature and snow lying averages 1981-2010 Coir rolls Sphagnum growing seasons due to extended restored blanket bog. Data will capitula . periods of snow in the winter and reduced sunshine hours during the also be used as a validation tool for the UK Peatland Code. UAVs are used to assess vegetation change Slopes — Steep slopes will summer. With a harsher climate comes different challenges and Sphagnum moss b2e re-profiled to speed up growth on bare peat different restoration methods are needed. 4. Disseminating the colonisation from the base. demonstration activities to policy makers, landowners and managers, Heather brash — government agencies, 3Blanket bog vegetation is cut non-governmental locally and spread over the bare organisations and other peat. Good levels of Sphagnum key stakeholders in the UK moss and other pleurocarpous and across the EU. mosses are present, along with A typical North Pennines bare peat site © Mark Brown @ Yorkshire Peat Partnership Before and after restoration Airlifting stone into place

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