Posts Tagged ‘meadow’
Guest Blog: What the Moths Taught Me
Imagine a snow storm – satin, white, ice green, Prussian blue – streaming out of the night, texture upon texture, colour upon colour. Snowflakes pelt into my face, brush my fingers, unhitching the neat lines of the everyday. But it’s the hottest night in England since records began. Normally cool on Dartmoor even in mid-summer,…
Read MoreGranite Elements Artists visit Pudsham Meadows
In late summer, DPA Ecologist Albert Knott led a guided tour of our land at Pudsham Meadows for local art group, Granite Elements. The idea was to encounter some of the special flora and fauna on site and perhaps inspire an artistic response to these very special hay meadows. To help the visiting artists connect…
Read MoreMarvellous Meadows: Land Management at Pudsham
Pudsham Meadows is a marvellous example of flower rich grassland with associated scrub edges, recognized as a County Wildlife Site. The UK Biodiversity Action Plan identifies such fields as Priority Habitat due to their alarming decline over the past half-century. Now, they are highly localized, and Dartmoor alone accounts for about 6% of the national…
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