IUCN UK Peatland Programme

Fleet Moss

Fleet Moss

Project developer Yorkshire Peat Partnership/Pennine PeatLIFE
Project location SD867836
Project area 102.5ha
Project description The restoration of a severely degraded moorland involving the damming of grips and gullies with peat dams, stone and timber sediment traps and coir logs; the brashing and revegetation of bare peat areas with heather brash, dwarf shrub seed, cotton grass plugs, crowberry plugs; and the inoculation of bare peat areas with sphagnum.

 

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