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The Great Heather Gamble

Europe is burning, and nobody has bothered telling the weather. Wildfires in Spain and France are breaking records while the Cairngorms also feels the heat. The North York Moors is not a stranger to this chaos. A massive blaze last year turned twenty-five square kilometres of one moor into a cinder.
The Moorland Association has ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/07/28/the-great-heather-gamble/

#Bilsdale #NorthYorkMoors #UrraMoor #ecology #GrouseMoorManagement

Scorched Earth: A Cool Burn on Hasty Bank

Ah yes, the wonders of the so-called “cool burn”—a delightful little exercise in setting fire to the heather in supposedly small, controlled patches. The idea, we are told, is to clear out the old heather without charring the peat or moss underneath, thereby avoiding carbon loss and allowing for ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/03/18/scorched-earth-a-cool-burn-on-hasty-bank/

#Bilsdale #HastyBank #NorthYorkMoors #ecology #GrouseMoorManagement