This post is about damaging tracks, past and present, on protected moorland. I’d like to take you back in time on Walshaw Moor. This photograph was posted on this blog in Wuthering Moors 39, 13 September 2013. I pointed out that this place was marked on the OS map as a stream but now (in…
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Walshaw Moor (Wuthering Moors archive)
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The Wuthering Moors archive consists of scores of blogs about one controversial grouse moor in West Yorkshire, Walshaw Moor, which sites above Hebden Bridge. My first blog on this subject was on 19 March 2012 and I am sure that this series of blogs will get into the 90s at least before it ends. The…
Wuthering Moors 77 – a track going nowhere
Introduction: This post is about a track that a grouse shooting estate wants to build across their grouse moor. The land is designated because of its nature conservation importance. I, with the help of some very clever lawyers and the financial support of many of you, have stopped this track being built once on the…
Wuthering Moors 76 – more moor burning
Michael Gove has asked moorland owners to be good boys (and girls – although all the landowners in the room at the time were actually men) and to stop damaging blanket bogs through burning them. Burning is carried out so that men (and a few women) can shoot lots of Red Grouse for fun as…
Wuthering Moors 75 – six long years of complaining
Six years ago today the RSPB made its complaint to the European Commission about burning practices at Walshaw Moor and many other driven grouse moors in the UK (See Wuthering Moors 28, 15 October 2012). The RSPB deserves great respect for this important move (even though it is very quiet about it itself these days)….