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Clough Woodland Project Rob Twiggs 3 rd March 2015 1 Content Clough woodland? Background Objectives Opportunities Guiding Principles Impacts Benefits 2 Clough Woodland? Clough? Term used in Peak District &

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Clough Woodland Project

Rob Twiggs 3rd March 2015

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Content

  • Clough woodland?
  • Background
  • Objectives
  • Opportunities
  • Guiding Principles
  • Impacts
  • Benefits

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Moors for the Future

Clough?

  • Term used in Peak District & further north
  • Steep sided moorland valleys & watercourses
  • Convey runoff from moor to river
  • OS Maps – 1:25,000, 1:10,000

Woodland?

  • Native broadleaf woodland
  • Oak-Birch with bilberry NVC W17/W16
  • Birch with purple moor-grass NVC W4
  • Open ground, natural & varied structure

Clough Woodland?

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Moors for the Future

Clough? Not blocks of conifers.

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Moors for the Future

Clough? Not on the blanket bog. SAC Priority Habitat.

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Moors for the Future

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Not to adversely affect Qualifying Features of SAC & SPA or integrity

  • f the European Site.
  • Blanket Bog
  • Dry Heath
  • Wet Heath
  • Acid Flushes
  • Golden Plover
  • Merlin
  • Short-Eared Owl
  • Peregrine
  • Dunlin
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Moors for the Future

Something like this…

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Or like this…

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Or like this…

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Or like this…

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Or like this…

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Moors for the Future

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Moors for the Future

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Moors for the Future

Project Partners

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Key Objectives

  • Raise awareness of

benefits of clough woodland

  • Identify priority sites
  • Advise landowners
  • Facilitate funding

applications

  • Consents guidance
  • Create quality native broadleaf woodland

Ring Ouzel (Bob Garrett, 2014) 17

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Moors for the Future

Decline in Clough Woodlands

Factors:

  • Historic management
  • Grazing pressures
  • Air pollution
  • Clearance

Impact:

  • Degraded habitats
  • Species supported
  • Erosion & sediment
  • Loss of riparian shading
  • Hydrology

Black Grouse (RSPB) 18

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Project Drivers

  • Dark Peak – BAP

Objectives & Targets

  • PDNP Landscape

Strategy & Action Plan

  • Lower Derwent Flood Risk

Strategy

  • Woodlands for Water
  • High Peak Moors Vision
  • MFFP Business Plan

Wood Warbler (John Richardson, 2014)

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Lower Derwent Flood Risk Strategy

Modelling work completed as part of Lower Derwent Flood Risk Management strategy 2011, assessed how certain land management options, including afforestation, could help reduce peak flood flows. Results showed afforesting 60% of the catchment resulted in reduced downstream water levels (up to 340mm at St Mary’s Bridge Derby) and could reduce flood risk. Environment Agency, 2011

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Moors for the Future

Opportunities

Strategic approach to identifying priority cloughs in Upper Derwent to inform landowner/manager engagement

  • Woodlands for Water
  • PDNP - habitats & landholdings
  • Dark Peak Upland Oakwoods

GIS Project - FC, UU, PDNP

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Map 1

Extract data within Clough Woodland project area Resampled data to 50m grid 0.25 hectares Calculated area delivering WFD & FRM combined benefits Calculated area delivering WFD or FRM

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Map 2

Extract data within Clough Landscape Zone Resampled data to 50m grid 0.25 hectares Calculated area delivering WFD & FRM combined benefits Calculated area delivering WFD or FRM Calculated remaining area within Clough Landscape Zone 29

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Map 3

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Site Prioritisation

  • Extends or links woodland(s)
  • Size
  • Dominant vegetation
  • Public access routes
  • Naturalness of establishment
  • Landscape enhancement
  • Shelter & shade for livestock
  • Water quality & quantity
  • Countryside Stewardship

scoring for woodland creation

Short-eared owl (John Richardson, 2014)

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Guiding Principles

Mitigate potential adverse impacts

  • National Park
  • SSSI:
  • Wildlife
  • Geology
  • SAC Habitats
  • SPA Birds
  • Archaeology
  • Access land
  • Upland farming
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Consent – SPA, SAC

Appropriate assessment required under Habitat Regulations:

  • Mapped habitats from APs &

survey data

  • Ground truthed acid flushes
  • Mapped site constraints
  • GIS analysis
  • Notional Potential Woodland

Areas

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Impacts of work

  • Up to 490 ha approved for EWGS WCG on NT Peak

District Estate - Potentially up to £2.5 million

  • 70 ha approved for increased tree & shrub cover

under HLS options

Hectares (ha) Priority & Benefits 250 High priority to address WFD and FRM 608 High priority to address WFD 587 High priority to address FRM 2070 Other benefits e.g. biodiversity, landscape, shelter for livestock

  • Identified potential opportunities in Upper Derwent catchment

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Habitat for Insects

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  • Upland broadleaf woodland
  • Species– maximise benefits
  • Closed canopy
  • Edges, open space
  • Rides and glades
  • Food source

Small pearl-bordered fritillary (Peter Eeles, 2015)

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Habitat for Birds

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  • Food, nest sites, shelter
  • Support declining birds
  • Changes with time
  • Closed canopy
  • Open canopy and scrub
  • Woodland edge
  • Predators

Willow tit (RSPB)

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Habitat for Birds

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  • Food, nest sites, shelter
  • Support declining birds
  • Changes with time
  • Closed canopy
  • Open canopy and scrub
  • Woodland edge
  • Predators

Black Grouse (RSPB)

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Habitat for Birds

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  • Food, nest sites, shelter
  • Support declining birds
  • Changes with time
  • Closed canopy
  • Open canopy and scrub
  • Woodland edge
  • Predators
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Habitat for Birds

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  • Food, nest sites, shelter
  • Support declining birds
  • Changes with time
  • Closed canopy
  • Open canopy and scrub
  • Woodland edge
  • Predators
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Habitat for Birds

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  • Food, nest sites, shelter
  • Support declining birds
  • Changes with time
  • Closed canopy
  • Open canopy and scrub
  • Woodland edge
  • Predators
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Habitat for Mammals

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  • Shrews
  • Voles
  • Mice
  • Deer
  • Fox
  • Weasel
  • Stoat
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And not forgetting…

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  • Fungi
  • Bats
  • Reptiles
  • Amphibians
  • Freshwater invertebrates
  • Fish – Salmonid
  • Mosses & Lichens!
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Keeping Rivers Cool

Conceptual impact of riparian shading, tributary influences and discharge on stream temperature from catchment headwaters to outlets (based on Poole & Berman, 2001). Environment Agency, 2011.

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Water Quantity & Water Quality

  • 2 Demonstration sites
  • 2 Control sites
  • Flows & turbidity
  • Hazen - proxy for DOC
  • Funded to Dec 2014
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  • Biodiversity
  • Landscape enhancement
  • Health & wellbeing
  • Water quantity & quality
  • Erosion & sediment
  • Carbon storage
  • Climate change resilience
  • Shelter & shade for livestock
  • Plant health resilience
  • Evidence base

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Multiple Benefits

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Thank you! Any questions?

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07584 471243 Rob.Twiggs@peakdistrict.gov.uk