One of a new series of guest contributions from Sheffield Wildlife Trust members:
" All right minded people know that Sheffield Wildlife Trust are doing a great job here on Blacka Moor. Now there's welcome evidence to justify their decision to graze with cattle on this precious landscape. And it’s there for everyone to see and enjoy this weekend. Don’t miss the opportunity to see it. We don’t even have to wait for SWT’s staff to report the results of their evaluation - which will be done rigorously and scrupulously as with everything else they do. And I'm sure it will tell us when it comes that scores of rare and threatened species have been safeguarded by this creative project on, as I said, this truly precious site. But why wait for that? The evidence is clearly to be seen at the gate onto the moor and this will be great relief to all those who have backed the wildlife trust against the wishes of their ill-informed detractors. In years when there has been no cattle grazing all of this area has been dominated by unsightly flowering plants and grasses making this part of the site so untidy.
Photos from 2010 a year without the benefit of cattle on site
Now thanks to Mr Robinson’s enchanting cows all that unnecessary growth has been efficiently converted into an attractive substance with great benefits to the planet – by the simple expedient of passing through each cow! Isn’t life wonderful? And there is now a lovely farm smell to go with it and complementing the characterful farm equipment leaning beguilingly nearby. This is what the countryside should be like, and that’s what cows are for of course. As Annabelle says:
Nutrients are what this project is all about of course and I heartily reject the idea that it has anything to do with jobs and grants. That’s just a vile story put about by malcontents with an axe to grind. Just come and look. A preview below. "
B. Rainwash
Photos taken this week
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