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Danes Moss, where have all the trees gone?

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This is what Danes Moss looks like now theyve cut down all the trees. Can anyone tell me why they did this? Is it to preserve the peat marsh land?

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Danes Moss is a nationally important example of lowland raised bog - wetland habitat and important carbon sink. Unfortunately it has been severely damaged by drainage,industrial scale peat extraction and latterly creation of the landfill site. Nevertheless it is possible to bring back the boggy conditions so as to support the scarcer bog plants and insects. To achieve wetter conditions unfortunately means removing the birch trees which colonised when the peat was very dry. In leaf birch trees act as water pumps sucking water out of the bog. They can increase the water loss by 50%. It is a shame to lose the trees but an essential part of efforts to restore the boggy conditions which prevailed at Danes Moss for the past 6000 years prior to drainage in the 1800s.

mykp says:
Thanks for this robert, the trees where nice cover but if its conservation then so be it. I did notice that some have started to grow again in spots around the cleared land though when I walked through there on Sunday.

Posted by: Robert Duff on 15 November 2011

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