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Audio presentations and from the workshops can be downloaded below.
13/14 March 2008
Losehill Hall - Peak District National Park Centre for Environmental
Learning, Castleton
Thursday, 13 March
11.00 – 11.45 Registration
11.45 – 12.00 Welcome - Chris Dean, Moors for the Future and
Pat Thompson, RSPB (Conference Chair)
12.00 – 12.30 The Defra Peat Project - Matthew Shepherd, Natural
England
12.30 – 13.00 Summary of results – Martin Evans and
Fred Worrall, University of Manchester, Durham University
Explanation of workshops – Aletta Bonn, Moors for the Future,
Martin Evans and Fred Worrall
13.00 – 14.10 lunch
14.10 Workshop
Workshop 1 - Implementation:
What are the best methods and best practice and what affects their
delivery?
15.00 Workshop
Workshop 2 - Monitoring:
How are we monitoring our work and what affects our aims, methodologies
and results?
15.45 tea & coffee
16.20 Workshop
Workshop 3 - Future work:
What lessons should we take forward and how will future environmental
change affect these?
17.00 – 17.30 Plenum session
including summary of workshops
17.30 - 17.50
17:50 – 18:00 Peat – the Global Context – Roger
Meade, JBA Consulting
(coming shortly)
Compendium Database – Chris Dean, Moors for the Future
19.00 dinner
20.00 – 20:30
20.30 - Great
Fen Project – Chris Gerrard, Wildlife Trust - BCNP
Poster session & drinks (bar)
Friday, 14 March
08.00 breakfast
09.00 – 09:15 Good morning welcome - Pat Thompson
09.15 – 09:35 Cuilcagh Mountain Park Restoration – Chris
Reid, Marble Arch Caves European Geopark
09.35 – 09:55 Breathing
LIFE into blanket bogs in Wales - Jared Wilson, RSPB
09.55 – 10:10 Forestry
Commission Experience in the New Forest and Pennines – Jonathan
Spencer, Forestry Commission
10.10 – 10:40 Restoring Blanket Mire Hydrology – David
Smith, Exmoor National Park
10.40
11.10 – 11:30 Restoring
Foulshaw Moss: 10 years of Action – David Harpley, Cumbria
Wildlife Trust
11.30 – 11:50 Archaeology
uncovered – and recovered – Rachel Pickering, North
York Moors National Park
11.50 – 12:00 Summary Chris Dean
12.00 Lunch (packed lunch for those attending field trip)
12.15 (prompt) Field trip departs
Please contact
us if you would like any further information on the peat compendium
project.
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