Environment Agency explore flood risk management potential in South Pennines SAC
Earlier this month the Moors for the Future team hosted a visit from the Environment Agency Yorkshire team.
They were looking at flood risk management potential offered by blanket bog restoration work.
The trip follows on from a successful visit to the Upper Derwent by Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency and the Chair Emma Howard Boyd earlier this year, and a visit by EA Director Clive Elphick last month.
The MFFP team is looking forward to working with the EA as the potential for National Flood Risk Management is explored.
Moors for the Future scientists working to gain their wings
Extensive training to be able to fly a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is well under way for four members of the science team at Moors for the Future Partnership.
Tia Crouch, Mike Pilkington, Jemma Grant and David Chandler have already successfully completed a week-long intensive training course in Northumberland covering practical skills, aviation law and safety, as they work towards gaining their pilots licences.
Their new skills will be used to fly the UAV which will help to monitor the recovery of Sphagnum on a landscape scale across the Peak District and South Pennines.
Pictured: Dave Chandler, Tia Crouch, Jemma Grant and Mike Pilkington with the fixed wing UAV.
This will complement work undertaken to create a Land Cover Map for the South Pennines SAC, which uses aerial imagery to identify areas of bare peat and different vegetation types.
The map will be used to inform and help determine the shape and scope of works to be undertaken on particular sites.
