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Old drainage ditches, Flanders Moss
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Stirlingshire - Flanders Moss
View from the observation tower, Flanders Moss National Nature Reserve, Stirlingshire. Straight lines mark old drainage ditches, now blocked to re-wet the bog. A wet bog is a carbon sink - it sequesters carbon, whereas a dry bog becomes a carbon source.
20 October 2021
Garnock Floods, ridge and furrow and water level management ditch
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North Ayrshire - Garnock Floods SWT Reserve
Garnock Floods, ridge and furrow from former agriculture, and a water level management ditch
04 February 2019
Dam at Commonhead Moss
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Glasgow - Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat
Conservation in action - a plastic dam to help to preserve or raise the level of the water table, to promote growth of sphagnum moss and reverse the previous efforts at drainage at Commonhead Moss, a Glasgow local nature reserve. The sedge Hare’s-tail Cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum) can be seen on the side of the ditch.
22 May 2013
Dam at Commonhead Moss
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Glasgow - Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat
Conservation in action - a plastic dam to help to preserve or raise the level of the water table, to promote growth of sphagnum moss and reverse the previous efforts at drainage at Commonhead Moss, a Glasgow local nature reserve. The sedge Hare’s-tail Cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum) can be seen on the side of the ditch.
22 May 2013
Dam at Commonhead Moss
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Glasgow - Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat
Conservation in action - a plastic dam to help to preserve or raise the level of the water table, to promote growth of sphagnum moss and reverse the previous efforts at drainage at Commonhead Moss, a Glasgow local nature reserve. The sedge Hare’s-tail Cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum) can be seen on the side of the ditch.
22 May 2013
Dam at Commonhead Moss
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Glasgow - Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat
Conservation in action - a plastic dam to help to preserve or raise the level of the water table, to promote growth of sphagnum moss and reverse the previous efforts at drainage at Commonhead Moss, a Glasgow local nature reserve. There's also evidence of less conservation-minded visitors.
22 May 2013
Dam at Commonhead Moss
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Glasgow - Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat
Conservation in action - a plastic dam to help to preserve or raise the level of the water table. A raised water table promotes growth of sphagnum moss and helps to reverse the previous efforts at drainage at Commonhead Moss, a Glasgow local nature reserve. In this ditch, brushwood from scrub clearance has been dumped, to help to stem the flow of water and restore the bog.
The group of visitors is from the Friends of Glasgow's Local Nature Reserves.
22 May 2013
Blocked up darinage ditches, Forsinard
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Sutherland - Forsinard and Halladale
Blocked up darinage ditches, to help stem the drainage and restore the original peatland landscape, Forsinard Flows RSPB Reserve
24 May 2011
Blocked up drainage ditch
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Sutherland - Forsinard and Halladale
A drainage ditch blocked up with a small dam. This is an attempt to reverse the damage of the past, and restore the peatland habitat, an important bird breeding habitat and carbon sink, by protecting it from drying out.
23 May 2011
An ancient tree root in a drainage ditch
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Sutherland - Forsinard and Halladale
An ancient tree root in a drainage ditch on the Dubh Lochans Trail, Forsinard Flows RSPB Nature Reserve. Trees grew in warmer, drier climates of the postglacial era, then cooler wetter conditions hastened their demise and promoted the growth of peat.
