#grousemoormanagement — Public Fediverse posts
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Iron Age on the Moors: Percy Rigg’s Hidden Houses
For centuries, five Iron Age round houses sat quietly on this ridge in North Yorkshire, and nobody noticed. Not bad for a neighbourhood that was probably occupied for over 300 years.
The site was only spotted in 1962, when Fred Proud of Sleddale Farm found it and reported it to ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/03/21/iron-age-on-the-moors-percy-riggs-hidden-houses/
#Kildale #NorthYorkMoors #GrouseMoorManagement #history #IronAge
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Cool Burns and Warm Fictions
Ah, that warm, pungent smell of a recent so-called “cool burn”.
Now, I do not know whether these moorland burns truly reduce the fuel load and prevents catastrophic wildfires. I will heed the scientists and the fire brigade experts, but I am immediately sceptical of lobby groups pushing a single agenda.
Navigating the internet today i ...http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/03/12/cool-burns-and-warm-fictions/
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When Infographics Burn Brighter Than Evidence
An image drifted across my feed this morning: a mugshot of a certain former prince. Briefly amusing, obviously fake, the work of some obliging AI dressed up as reality. Elsewhere, a Facebook post from the Moorland Association offered something far less harmless. A polished infographic declared, ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/02/21/when-infographics-burn-brighter-than-evidence/
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Toad in the Hole
How thoughtful the keepers appear to be, fashioning what looks like a charming wildlife pond in the middle of the grouse moor. A touching gesture, if one overlooks the small detail that this idyllic pool is also a shooting butt where folk crouch, lie in wait, and unleash a storm of shot at birds driven overhead. Should the heavens open, the “sportsmen” will ...
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Purple Heather, Brown Truth
The ling, or common heather, has reached its peak bloom just days before the start of the grouse shooting season — the annual spectacle in which profit and sport take precedence over the land itself. This year, the display is patchy. Whole swathes have turned a brittle reddish-brown, appearing dead but ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/08/09/purple-heather-brown-truth/
#NewtonMoor #NorthYorkMoors #CallunaVulgaris #GrouseMoorManagement #Ling #NationalTrust
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The Government’s Proposals to Curb Heather Burning
Gisborough Moor, from across Sleddale, is marked by neat, rectangular patches of scorched heather. These are “swiddens,” the product of controlled burning, a practice designed to create the perfect environment for grouse. The idea is simple: burn the old heather, let fre ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/03/31/the-governments-proposals-to-curb-heather-burning/
#GisboroughMoor #NorthYorkMoors #Sleddale #ecology #GrouseMoorManagement
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Sinister Relics at Penrod Spring
Two years ago, during one of my habitual wanderings, I stumbled upon a peculiar structure concealed within a 19th-century walled enclosure at the so-called Penrod Spring. I say “so-called” because there was no trace of water.
Buried in its crumbling remains was a sinister wooden contraption, shaped like a ‘T’—reminisce ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/03/12/sinister-relics-at-penrod-spring/
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Smoke Signals from Baysdale
I am always saddened when I see those great plumes of smoke drifting across the skyline. It's a stark reminder, according to the State of Nature Report 2023, that the UK has earned itself a reputation as "one of the most nature-depleted countries on Earth", with biodiversity taking a significant hit.
A good three-quarters of our moorlands are eit ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=34975
#Baysdale #CodhillSlack #NorthYorkMoors #Burning #GrouseMoorManagement
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Hutton Moor — Biodiversity vs. Profit
This is Hutton Moor at the northern end of the Percy Cross Rigg track. I see that the self-seeded birch and spruce that have sprouted on the heather moorland have been unceremoniously cut down. The rationale is clear; if left unchecked, the moorland will eventually transform into a birch woodland. However, this does come at the cost of ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=34717
#HuttonMoor #NorthYorkMoors #ClevealndWay #ecology #GrouseMoorManagement
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Three Howes — Heritage in flames
I felt a deep sadness upon coming across this recent burning on a bowl barrow on Gisborough Moor. These bowl barrows are historical landmarks, and government regulations explicitly state that burning “must not … damage important monuments”.
I suppose those responsible might argue that the burning was a “cool burn”, not reaching the pe ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=33540
#GisboroughMoor #NorthYorkMoors #BronzeAge #GrouseMoorManagement #neolithic
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Ah, the joys of heather burning season
It's the delightful season of heather burning, and I found myself on Hasty Bank, the perfect vantage point to witness the breathtaking spectacle of over a dozen smoke columns gracefully dancing across a vast 180° panorama of the North York Moors, stretching from Gisborough Moor to the majestic Black Hambleton. In the photo above, these particular ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=33367
#InglebyMoor #NorthYorkMoors #WhiteHill #GrouseMoorManagement
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https://community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/b/investigations/posts/regime-change
More evidence of #WildlifeCrime on moors managed for #grouseshooting (yet again by tenants of the #NatiomalTrust in the #peakdistrict) At least this time the National Trust has done the right thing and the lease is not renewed, but #RaptorPersecution is common in the industry and the legal parts of #grousemoormanagement are damaging. Time for a ban. Its tourism damage probably costs the rural economy more than it brings in.
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https://community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/b/investigations/posts/regime-change
More evidence of #WildlifeCrime on moors managed for #grouseshooting (yet again by tenants of the #NatiomalTrust in the #peakdistrict) At least this time the National Trust has done the right thing and the lease is not renewed, but #RaptorPersecution is common in the industry and the legal parts of #grousemoormanagement are damaging. Time for a ban. Its tourism damage probably costs the rural economy more than it brings in.
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All my life I have loved being out and about …
... in the fresh air, in the hills and mountains. Never a day goes by without my daily fix.
But the sight of blackened, smelly swiddens saddens me; just as much as the large plumes of smoke that waft across the moors. This melancholy is worsened by an increasing anxiety of the climate emergency and looming ecological disaster.
This rotational bur ...