Our Uplands Commons | W

Location: Holne Moor – Dart 

Aims: Improving herd health through understanding the nutrition available to stock on the common.

• Trialling new methods of Molina control on Dartmoor’ s blanket bogs.
• Working with commoners and landowners to protect and restore spring mires.
• Understanding the health and distribution of trees on the commons and working together with other people to see how it could be improved.
• Managing bracken for butterflies and surveying birds across the commons.

Partner/s: Led by the Foundation for Common Land/Dartmoor National Park Authority. It’s been funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Esmée Fairbairn, Garfield Weston Foundations plus local funders: the Duchy of Cornwall, Dartmoor Preservation Association, South West Water and Devon Wildlife Trust, among others.

Contact: [email protected]

Website: https://www.dartmoor.gov.uk/wildlife-and-heritage/our-conservation-work/our-upland-commons-dartmoor