The third Moors for the Future conference was held on 20-21st September at Losehill Hall to strengthen existing research links and to identify what has and will in the future shape the Peak District moorlands. The event was a huge success, download the programme. If you would like copies of the talks, workshops and posters presented over the 2 days please contact us. (Please note that
the views and findings of attendees are not necessarily views held by the Moors for the Future Partnership)

Presentations

• Moors for the Future Partnership - Chris Dean, Project Manager
• Moors for the Future research - Catherine Flitcroft & Aletta Bonn, MFF research team
• International view on moorlands - Prof Robin Pakeman, The Macaulay Institute & Northern Studies Centre
• Recreational value of the Moorland Landscape - Mark Vallance, British Mountaineering Council
• Human Exploitation of the Peak District Moors and Bogs – the challenges of a managed cultural landscape - Ian Rotherham, Sheffield Hallam University
• The environmental and prehistoric record of the Dark Peak - Darcey Gillie & Bill Bevan, Nottingham University and PDNPA
• Fire and climate change in the Peak District - Julia McMorrow, Gina Cavan, Jonathan Aylen & Kevin Albertson, Manchester University and Manchester Metropolitan University
• Moorland management and discolouration of water supplies: evidence on a catchment scale? - Jill Labadz, Nottingham Trent University
• Moorland Regeneration - Richard May, Heather Trust
• Past and present land use and vegetation - key to understanding the distribution of sphagnum species - David Shimwell, Manchester University
• Recovery of sphagnum mosses in relation to changes in air pollution - Simon Caporn, Jacky Carroll, Colin Studholme & John Lee, Manchester Metropolitan University and Sheffield University
• Adapting to future change in the Peak District - Mark Reed & Lindsay Stringer, University of Leeds
• Agriculture policy developments in the uplands - Jonathan Marsden, defra
• Review of the Heather and Grass Burning Code - Alex Page, head of uplands policy team, defra
• Grip Blocking and its effect on water quality - Martin McGrath, SCAMP project manager, United Utilities
• Visions for the English uplands - Alistair Crowle, Upland ecologist, English Nature Peterborough
• Economic modelling of upland farming - Prof Martin Seabrook, Nottingham University
• Changes in moorland birds in the Peak District - James Pearce-Higgins, Jared Wilson, Colin Beale, RSPB
• The implications of upland change for the twite, a red-listed upland passerine - Andre Raine, University of East Anglia
• Environmentally sustainable and economically viable grazing systems for the restoration and maintenance of heather moorlands - Nigel Critchley, ADAS
• Evidence based conservation - Gavin Stewart, University of Birmingham
  

Workshops

• Erosion & alteration of hydrology – processes & effects - chair: Kate Snow, catchment policy manager, United Utilities
• Clues from the past - archaeology & landscape character - chair: Bill Bevan, cultural heritage team, PDNPA
• Moorland restoration – potential and progress - chair: Penny Anderson, PAA consultants
• Open Access – benefits and challenges - chair: Mike Rhodes, Access officer, PDNPA
• Ecological effects of land use practices - chair: Richard Pollitt, Dark Peak conservation officer, English Nature
• Agriculture Policy Developments in the Uplands - chair: Jonathan Marsden, Alex Page, defra
• Balancing land-use, recreation and conservation aims - chair: Steven Trotter, High Peak Estate manager, National Trust
  

Posters

• Delivering Positive Messages to Dog Owners - Jessica Robinson, University of Leeds
• Spatial modelling of reported wildfire risk: Dark Peak, Peak District National Park - Richard Karooni, Julia McMorrow, Sarah Lindley, Gina Cavan, and John Handley, University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University
• Mapping and Encoding the Spatial Pattern of Peat Erosion - L. Liddaman, J. McMorrow, M. Evans and J. Lindsay, University of Manchester
  Moors for the Future posters