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Non UU-Owned Catchments Kinder – National Trust. Kinder Catchment Improvement Project. Tricia Rice Projects Manager National Trust High Peak & Longshaw Estate. Kinder Catchment. Kinder Catchment. Kinder Catchment. Kinder Catchment Improvement Project.
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Kinder Catchment Improvement Project Tricia Rice Projects ManagerNational TrustHigh Peak & Longshaw Estate
Kinder Catchment Improvement Project *NE Contribution to be delivered through Environmental Stewardship
Project Deliverables Gully blocking Minimum of 1,800 dams installed to raise water table, encourage peat sedimentation & revegetation
Project Deliverables Gully blocking Brash spreading To stabilise 50ha bare peat
Project Deliverables Gully blocking Brash spreading Moorland revegetation To stabilise and vegetate 191ha eroding moorland
Project Deliverables Gully blocking Brash spreading Moorland revegetation Woodland expansion 5,000 trees planted in cloughs to protect stream banks Stock management Removal of trespass sheep from plateau Monitoring To measure success of above intervention measures
Added Value Volunteer involvement Where possible with restoration, mapping or monitoring works • Biffa ‘Peatlands for the Future’ • £250,000 restoration work • Monitoring • Interpretation