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Restoring Woodhead Estate: MoorLIFE Project

Skilled delivery for 600 hectares with lime, fertilizer, and grass seed. Collaborative effort by contributing partners. MoorLIFE aims to restore degraded upland peat in Woodhead Estate for improved water quality, reduced flood risk, and enhanced biodiversity. Various restoration techniques like gully blocking, brash spreading, and hydro-seeding will be implemented to promote vegetation growth. The project also includes plug plants and Sphagnum propagation to revitalize the ecosystem.

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Restoring Woodhead Estate: MoorLIFE Project

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  1. Non UU-Owned CatchmentsWoodhead - MFF

  2. Moors for the Future; Skilled and Experienced Delivery 600 hectares 1200 tonnes of lime and fertiliser 120 tonnes prilled grass seed 20 hectares geo-jute 1950 tonnes heather brash 5km to nearest road Much winter work! Moors for the Future

  3. Contributing Partners • Peak District National Park Authority* • Natural England • Environment Agency • National Trust • United Utilities • Yorkshire Water • Severn Trent Water • Derbyshire County Council • RSPB • Heritage Lottery Fund • EU Commission • Defra • English Heritage Moors for the Future

  4. Black Hill Summit 2003

  5. Black Hill Summit July 2008 – 6 years of successful project delivery

  6. MoorLIFEAn opportunity to finish the job started in 2002

  7. MoorLIFEhttp://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/publications/lifepublications/compilations/documents/natcompilation08.pdfMoorLIFEhttp://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/publications/lifepublications/compilations/documents/natcompilation08.pdf Inside PDNP 497 Ha approximately £4.5 million Outside PDNP 358 Ha approximately £1.2 million United Utilities £504k Yorkshire Water £415k Natural England £208k National Trust £209k Environment Agency £88k

  8. Conservation Plan Project

  9. Non – owned catchment: Woodhead

  10. MoorLIFEWoodhead Estate East of Bleaklow Head, possibly the most degraded upland peat in Europe and it is in a National Park

  11. Woodhead project • Poor raw water quality • 43,000cu Metres of sediment per year • flood risk due to rapid surface drainage • failing to meet SSSI target condition • major carbon source • poor agricultural productivity

  12. Non – owned catchment: Woodhead • Gully Blocking : can be over 3m deep, 139 km of gullies will be blocked. • Brash Spreading: The area of bare peat is estimated to be 50 hectares. Includes cutting, delivery and spreading of heather brash onto the bare peat areas. • Bare peat re-vegetation: spreading chopped up heather brash, on steeper slopes a geo textile material is required. Then a nurse grass seed is sown with successive additions of lime and fertilizer for four out of the first five years • Plug Plants: These are small plants, mainly Eriophorum angustifolium, Eriophorum vaginatum and Empetrum nigra. • Hydro-seeding: Hydro-seeding seeds of Calluna vulgaris, Erica tetralix, Erica cinerea and Vaccinium myrtillus by helicopter of cleaned seed. • Sphagnum: helicopter application, in suspension, of embryonic plants of 5 Sphagnum species and Polytrichum commune. Moors for the Future

  13. Sphagnum propagation Moors for the Future

  14. ….and the MoorLIFE project will significantly improve all these issues

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