Sue Everett is an ecologist and land management adviser. She is a regular contributor to British Wildlife magazine, co-founder of two national wild-plant charities and helps farmers and landowners restore nature-rich habitats on their land.
A Message in the Floods
Our land has experienced centuries of woodland clearance, decades of overgrazing and burning upland heaths and bogs, and relatively recent ‘reclamation’ (for intensive farming) of heathy hillsides, scrubby banks, old pastures and floodplain meadows. On heavy clay soils, and where wetlands used to be, land drainage, river canalisation and dredging have enabled farmers to cultivate land where cultivation was considered impossible not that long ago.
February 26, 2020