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Visitor Surveys - can you help?
Mon 17 Nov 2014
We are planning another round of Dark Peak Nature Improvement Area (NIA) visitor surveys in December.The surveys will build on the data collected since 2012. Our questionnaire asks who is visiting our green spaces and why, what benefits people gain from their visits, what they think of the natural environment
Path restoration protects vital Moorlands
Fri 17 Oct 2014
Visitors to one of the Peak District’s most stunning upland viewpoints will be able to enjoy a newly-restored footpath by next Spring.The popular Whinston Lee Tor permissive path on Moscar Moor, which stretches along Derwent Edge overlooking Ladybower Reservoir, is to be resurfaced with a mixture of gritstone aggregate and
Science volunteer seminar
Thu 25 Sep 2014
Twenty people attended a seminar organised by the science team on 31st January 2014. Members of the science team gave presentations on different aspects of our work.Rachael Maskill started things off with a presentation about vegetation monitoring.Tia Crouch gave a presentation on water quality and showed a video of water
Forever blowing bubbles - our dipwell campaign starts today
Thu 18 Sep 2014
The science team’s annual dipwell campaign starts today – measuring water levels at monitoring sites across the Peak District and South Pennines.Today, a team of thirty-two staff and dedicated volunteers are out checking water levels on nine different sites. A total of 840 measurements will be taken across the Peak
Dark Peak NIA visitor surveys reach over 1000 people
Mon 15 Sep 2014
The second round of 2014 Dark Peak Nature Improvement Area (NIA) visitor surveys took place in early September.A dedicated team of volunteers continues working despite the conditions, which included clouds of midges, to carry out the surveys and bring the total number of completed questionnaires to over 1,100.These surveys build
Fire awareness campaign lights up Peak District moors
Wed 27 Aug 2014
The UK’s first real-time fire risk map has been launched by the Moors for the Future Partnership as part of a campaign to prevent wildfires destroying rare Peak District habitats.Moorland fires cause deep, costly and long-lasting damage to the landscape, wildlife habitats, recreational areas and even drinking water – and
Visitor Surveys - can you help?
Tue 12 Aug 2014
The second round of 2014 Dark Peak Nature Improvement Area (NIA) visitor surveys will be taking place in early September.The surveys will build on the data collected in 2012/13. Our questionnaire asks who is visiting our green spaces and why, what benefits people gain from their visits, what they think
Moors for the Future Partnership - a lesson for others says Lord Smith
Tue 22 Jul 2014
Millions of people who watched Stage 2 of the Tour de France on TV may have taken for granted the lush moorlands on Holme Moss as the cyclists rushed over the summit.But Lord Smith, chair of the Environment Agency, knows that just a few years ago they would have been
Journey through our history with the Tour de Yorkshire
Thu 03 Jul 2014
The start of this year's Tour de France will pass through iconic moorlands of the South Pennines and Peak District National Park before heading for the end of the first two stages — known as the Tour de Yorkshire — in Sheffield. Since 2003, we have been working to bring
New audio tours of South Pennine moors
Thu 26 Jun 2014
Walkers can download an audio guide before they upload their rucksack to discover that Romans tramped the very path beneath their feet as they hike the South Pennine moors.Two new “audio trails”, delivered by the MoorLIFE project, are now free to download to smart phones and MP3 players, enabling ramblers
A scientific approach to the effect of upland restoration on flooding
Mon 02 Jun 2014
Three football-pitch sized plots high on the uplands of Kinder Scout could hold the key to reducing the kind of flooding that wreaked havoc in parts of England last winter.The areas are test-beds for a six-year, £1m Making Space for Water multi-objective demonstration project in the Peak District National Park
Bee part of a hive of activity on the moors
Thu 24 Apr 2014
Do you regularly visit and walk on the moors of the Peak District and South Pennines?Would you like to take part in an innovative project?If so why not become a MoorCitizen and get involved in the Community Science Project run by the Moors for the Future Partnership and funded by
Aerial application of lime, seed and fertiliser on Kinder Scout
Thu 17 Apr 2014
Work is planned to begin after the Easter weekend to apply lime, seed and fertiliser by helicopter over the much of the Kinder Scout Plateau. This is an essential part of the programme of conservation works, to ensure that grasses can grow and help stabilise the bare peat that occurs
Visitor Surveys - can you help?
Mon 07 Apr 2014
The first Dark Peak Nature Improvement Area (NIA) visitor surveys of 2014 will be taking place in mid-May.The surveys will build on the data we collected in 2012/13 including who is visiting green spaces and why; what benefits people gain from their visits, what they think of the natural environment
Kicking off 2014 season of moorland restoration
Thu 06 Mar 2014
We have made the most of this year's first real window in the weather over the past fortnight to fly over 5,600 bags of heather brash - for use in moorland restoration work – onto sites across the Peak District National Park and the South Pennines.The heather brash is spread
Moors for the Future set sights on 2020 vision
Mon 17 Feb 2014
Moors for the Future Partnership has set out ambitious plans for development up to 2020 in a new Business Plan which will offer services to a wider market in 2015-2020.A not-for-profit partnership and a global leader in large-scale moorland restoration, our current members include the Peak District National Park Authority,
Yorkshire Water leads major improvement for Pennine moorland
Mon 03 Feb 2014
A significant project to conserve wildlife, improve drinking water and reduce flooding downstream is being carried out by Yorkshire Water on nationally important moorland overlooking Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire.Yorkshire Water has commissioned more than five kilometres of fencing and dry stone walling for its Heptonstall and Widdop moors to help
Celebrating success on Wessenden Moor
Mon 20 Jan 2014
The team kick-started a new working year with a site visit to celebrate the success of gully blocking works at Wessenden Moor. The work is being undertaken for Yorkshire Water, on National Trust owned Marsden Moor Estate, and the effect is already visible. Joining the team of Moors for the
New sphagnum project
Mon 20 Jan 2014
A new project funded by Natural England and Yorkshire Water is investigating new ways of diversifying Molinia-dominated blanket bogs by using a simple treatment such as flailing followed by the application of sphagnum beads directly onto the Molinia.This invasive plant is traditionally dealt with by a combination of burning, poisoning,
Science in the Park
Mon 11 Nov 2013
Moors for the Future attended Science in the Park on 2nd November at the Peveril Centre in Castleton and on the 9th at Bakewell Town Hall.The event was organised by the Peak District National Park Authority's learning and discovery team and provided the public with an opportunity to try out
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