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Grouse: the perfect positive indicator
With the new season just days away, Gareth Dockerty takes a look at how grouse can be a positive indicator to the health of moorland.
- Offbeat
Let’s Learn Moor day one – gamekeepers rule
BASC’s Gareth Dockerty reflects on the importance of the gamekeepers in delivering Let’s Learn Moor.
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The fake news about grouse moors
BASC’s Gareth Dockerty sorts fiction from fact regarding grouse shooting on Yorkshire Water’s moorland.
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Tackling wildfires at the landscape level
A new report into wildfire risks in the Peak District National Park, should be the template for all parks says Gareth Dockerty.
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There’s life all around you on the moor
BASC’s Gareth Dockerty reflects on recording the Moorland Chorus, and how you are never alone on a grouse moor.
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Splitting hares
Like buses, we have been waiting years for a formal population estimate of the Peak District mountain hare, and then two show up at once.
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Mountain hares thriving in the Peak District
Gareth Dockerty discusses the findings of a new study demonstrating success of mountain hares across Peak District grouse moors.
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Grouse-degradation
Does the phrase grouse-degradation suitably describe the systematic attacks on grouse shooting seen in the media and online? BASC’s Gareth Dockerty considers the issue…
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A carbon king?
BASC’s Gareth Dockerty discusses the importance of British peatlands as a key carbon store.
