After two years of research into heather management across the U.K, the Heather Trust is today publishing the first summary of our findings as a Members' Briefing available for download on the Trust's website.
The Briefing represents an enormous amount of research, and provides an extremely condensed overview of the various issues raised after an extensive tour of Britain's heather moorlands, from Exmoor to Sutherland.
Further Briefings will be published in the coming months to expand upon some of the key areas identified by this Briefing, including innovative new ignition patterns for heather burning, customised habitat management using machinery and the use of moorland-scale cutting techniques.
Moorland management is dynamic, progressive and very much "on the move". Burning produces the best quality heather regeneration, but the progress made by cutting over the past decade has made this management technique more practical and widely applicable than it has ever been before. Watch this space for more of the latest research into heather management for the 21st Century.
