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| What a fantastic piece of work, full of detailed information and superb photography. Very many congratulations! And superbly produced by Thorne & Hatfield Moors Conservation Forum. A splendid addition to my bookshelves. |
Unsolicited comment from Geoffrey Wilmore, who is the plant recorder of the Botanical Society of the British Isles for vice county 63 |
Published March 2009, Pp. [i]-iv,1-32; Full colour frontispiece , plus a further 11 colour pages. It is produced to higher standards than other volumes being printed on 130 gsm silk paper, with full colour covers on 300 gsm board and is saddle-stitched.
In 2004 large-scale peat milling ceased on Hatfield Moor and Natural England (then English Nature) began the task of regenerating one of the largest lowland raised mires in Great Britain. In the following 2 years local naturalist Ian McDonald carried out a systematic personal survey of the flora of Hatfield Moor. This book details the 282 plants Ian recorded and gives a unique insight into what remains following decades of destruction. It also provides a yardstick against which to measure future changes to the moors.
Ian divided Hatfield Moors into 1km squares, based on the standard OS map. He then surveyed each 1km square, recording all plant species found within it's bounds - excluding any part outside the NNR.
A section of the book gives an overview of each of the squares, together with a typical view of the habitat.
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The main section of the book gives a complete distribution map of the moors for every species identified, showing all 1km squares where the species was recorded.
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Ian is a self-taught botanist, and in this book he reveals something of his background, how he became interested in botany and his reasons for writing it. His style is refreshingly honest and he reveals that he has lost none of his campaigning zeal for the threatened landscapes and their wildlife. The numerous colour photographs, taken from a growing collection, are his own. Ian's survey, timed as it was at the end of the most intensive period of peat removal from Hatfield Moors, provides a valuable link between the surveys of the 20th century and those still to come.
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