Lee Schofield @leeinthelakes Twitter profile

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Lee Schofield

@leeinthelakes

2 years

Anyone suggesting the RSPB shouldn't 'get political' should understand that this is exactly what the RSPB exists to do: To stand up for nature, regardless of which political party, industry or person the threat is coming from. And make no mistake, this threat is huge.

RSPB England

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2 years

⚠️😡Make no mistake, we are angry. This Government has today launched an attack on nature. We don’t use the words that follow lightly. We are entering uncharted territory. Please read this thread. 1/13

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9 months

Why would anyone want to swap a small blue bird, symbolising freedom, nature and joy, for an X, the symbol used the world over for wrong, no, or cancelled. Baffling.

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@leeinthelakes

11 months

If only there was some other way of providing shade and shelter to livestock...

Shade Haven mobile parasol offers sun relief for in-field stock - Farmers Weekly

Hot, sunny days and pastures with little or no man-made or natural shade are a poor combination for livestock. The Shade Haven mobile parasol provides

www.fwi.co.uk

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1 year

WTF!

Natural England approves licences to kill Skylarks 'for sport'

Licence statistics now include falconry data showing Skylarks being killed 'for sporting purposes'

jasonendfield.weebly.com

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

This weekend I'll have to build an enclosure to house my three chickens. Meanwhile, I just counted about a hundred pheasants roaming freely along a mile or so of minor road on my way to work. Doesn't feel entirely fair to me... @DefraGovUK

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@leeinthelakes

4 years

Right, here goes... Swindale Beck was straightened at least 200 years ago. The people living in the valley at the time needed to reduce flooding in their meadows to ensure they had a good crop of winter feed for their livestock. Straightening the river achieved this for a while.

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@herdyshepherd1

4 years

Would be good to have a thread explaining the ecological benefits of this for those us less expert With photos of benefits and new habitats - thank you

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

Indefensible codswallop. There are few more clear-cut issues: Extracting peat, for whatever use, is ecocide. It must end as soon as possible.

A peat ban now makes no sense for gardeners – or the planet

Our columnist discusses hot topics and shares top tips for nurturing seedlings and keeping garden pests at bay

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

Because nobody walks in the woods in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Switzerland, Austria or any of the other many countries that have Wild Boar and Wolves. In those countries, everyone hides inside, petrified to go out.

David Colquhoun 🇺🇦 💙

@david_colquhoun

2 years

@BenGoldsmith Wolves and wild boars will make a walk in the woods too dangerous for humans. Madness.

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@leeinthelakes

9 months

I would like to let @RishiSunak , @Keir_Starmer and @EdwardJDavey know that climate and nature policies will be the main factor in who I decide to vote for at the next election. Please retweet if you feel the same. Here are some ideas for policies that would win my vote... 👇

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@leeinthelakes

3 years

Today I decided to return to Young Wood, one of the @lakedistrictnpa 's most fascinating ecological fragments. It doesn't look like much from the road outside our house, 3 miles away across the valley, just a fuzz of green on the side of Bowscale Fell.

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

Feels like maybe we're approaching a showdown, a long awaited moment where we get the chance to prove that vested interests will not prevail over nature and those who care about it. My hope is this new threat will bring all the campaigners, NGOs, & concerned citizens together.

Lee Schofield

@leeinthelakes

2 years

Anyone suggesting the RSPB shouldn't 'get political' should understand that this is exactly what the RSPB exists to do: To stand up for nature, regardless of which political party, industry or person the threat is coming from. And make no mistake, this threat is huge.

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2 years

Think what you like about Twitter, but this weekend has been exhilarating. Loads of farmers, environmentalists, nature and countryside lovers united in concern about the future of the government's farming policies. I hope they've heard how strongly the public care.

Lee Schofield

@leeinthelakes

2 years

Anyone suggesting the RSPB shouldn't 'get political' should understand that this is exactly what the RSPB exists to do: To stand up for nature, regardless of which political party, industry or person the threat is coming from. And make no mistake, this threat is huge.

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

Meticulously researched, powerfully and passionately written, this is going to reignite the debate about how we live and how we eat like a dousing of petrol.

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

Pretty hard to listen to the piece on @BBCr4today about airports and the need to get them back to full capacity following the one about how many people are likely to die from next week's heatwave. #ClimateCrisis

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

Bravo @nationaltrust . This will likely draw criticism from some, saying the NT shouldn't get political. In my view as an NT member, they (we) absolutely should. This is about protecting nature, culture and the countryside against grave threats. What else does the NT exist to do?

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@MarkFunnell6

2 years

Front page of tomorrow’s Sunday Times - ⁦ @nationaltrust ⁩ seven red lines the Government must not cross in its pursuit of growth.

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

Farmer makes wetland. Stonking great wetland bird appears. Farmer is happy. So is bird. The end.

James Rebanks

@herdyshepherd1

2 years

Did I mention we have a Great Egret Did I? Did I? Did I? Come of farmer brothers and sisters, let’s get this countryside pumping out good stuff and show what brilliant land stewards we can be 💪🏻

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1 year

EXCITING DISCOVERY KLAXON! Whilst walking in Naddle Forest at @WildHaweswater this morning, I found hazel gloves #fungus ! Hazel gloves is a globally rare, red data book species, which as far as I can tell, has never been recorded in Northern England before.

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

Great to see miles of new hedges being planted in my neck of the woods. By the lay of the land, many look like they are going in where previous hedges used to be. Don't know who's farm this is, but bravo. Nature/shelter/carbon win.

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

Mountains look better with trees.

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

Having grown a bit sick of the silly conservation vs farming narrative, last year I started on a series of articles about farmers doing great things for #nature in #Cumbria . I didn't do one on @herdyshepherd1 , but thankfully, I had lots of other farms to choose from. (THREAD)

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@leeinthelakes

5 years

Five years ago, before @cumbriawildlife bought them, these fields at #EycottHill were green deserts, overgrazed and fertilised with minimal wildlife value. Today they are incredible - visibly and audibly buzzing with life. #Cumbria #lakedistrict #wildflowerhour

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2 years

I'm in Devon. Water streaming down the sides of lanes, swelling rivers with water the colour of chocolate milk. It really isn't hard to understand why. We need to do better than this.

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

Perhaps the best item of mail I've ever received. My much slaved over book, in real, solid form, complete with beautiful illustrations.

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@leeinthelakes

1 year

Nothing quite like a good morning fell pony nuzzle in a wet and wild Swindale.

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@leeinthelakes

4 years

Ullswater, by John Glover, c1824 () Oh, to have known the #LakeDistrict when it was like this, when it was still home to wildcats, corncrake, black grouse, water voles, pine martens, red backed shrike and many other species that aren't here any longer.

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@leeinthelakes

10 months

For years I've been longing for the restoration of the horribly drained mire and straightened beck at Wasdale Head, on the A6 between Shap and Kendal. This week, the restoration began. A huge win for nature and carbon. Bravo Lowther Estate.

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

Today, thanks to a combination of bone-deep eco/political-anxiety and exhaustion, I spent half an hour uncontrollably sobbing. Although I've imbued #WildFell with a sense of hope, I'm scared shitless.

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

I've dreamt of this fence at @WildHaweswater for years. Finished a month ago, it runs for about 1km up the face of Harter Fell. Linking to other pre-existing boundaries it makes a 950ha/2250ac area where nature will be given a freer hand than it has had for a very long time

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

That's a proper green roof

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

Is it just me, or is nature/land writing just getting better and better? These have all deeply educated, moved and inspired me over the last year or so.

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@leeinthelakes

3 years

Took a wet walk through some first class WOOD PASTURE on the shore of #ullswater this morning. Here's a thread to explain why it's such a fantastic habitat, and why we need more of it.

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

Responding to my plea for help, this excellent fellow (also Lee) spent an hour in Swindale with his metal detector this afternoon. Just as we were about to give up, BEEP BEEP, and I am happily reunited with my wedding ring! A very happy ending, and much gratitude.

Lee Schofield

@leeinthelakes

2 years

Dear Twitter folk of #Cumbria . Does anyone have a metal detector I could borrow? I lost my wedding ring in Swindale at @WildHaweswater today. I would be so very grateful...

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

Larch flowers are properly exquisite

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

Young Wood, England's highest fragment of Oak Woodland, as seen from Eycott Hill. A tiny shard of what used to be.

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

ELMS is a once in generation opportunity to restore our battered countryside. There is huge appetite for it. If government scrap ELMS, they'd be sticking a massive middle finger up to the thousands of people who have sweated blood over developing it.

Government poised to scrap nature ‘Brexit bonus’ for farmers

Defra accused of ‘all-out attack’ on environment by wildlife groups

www.theguardian.com

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

Today's new thing. Calling into a bookshop and seeing #WildFell on display.

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

Democracy has failed. The new tory leadership seems bent on trashing nature & the climate, ignoring legal commitments to do exactly the opposite. How can a government do such a dramatic volte face without asking the electorate? I've never felt so powerless & hopless as a citizen.

RSPB England

@RSPBEngland

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🚨⚠️ The RSPB is deeply concerned that the Government is about to start a full-on attack on the laws that protect nature. Please read this thread … 1/8

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@leeinthelakes

1 year

Fell ponies fording the wiggly beck in Swindale, seemingly oblivious to the less than perfect weather.

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@leeinthelakes

1 year

Blimey! Such an incredible honour. I think I need a bit of a lie down...

Richard Jefferies Society

@RJefferiesSoc

1 year

On this International Day of Biodiversity, the popular book 'WILD FELL: Fighting for nature on a Lake District hill farm' by @leeinthelakes ( @DoubledayUK ) has been announced as the winner of the prestigious Richard Jefferies Award. Congratulations.

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@leeinthelakes

3 years

NOW it feels real...

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@leeinthelakes

3 years

Some very striking vegetation contrasts either side of the fences around the long term grazing exclosure on the limestone pavement at Scar Close, part of the Ingleborough National Nature Reserve in the Yorkshire Dales.

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@leeinthelakes

4 years

This wins my weirdest creature of the day prize - a horsehair worm, about a foot long. Caught by accident whilst my kids were after tiddlers in the beck. #invertebrates @Buzz_dont_tweet @freshwaterbio More info -

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

My pal John had this incredible viewing of #otters in @wildennerdale yesterday. His Christmas gift to you all. Pure joy. #nature #LakeDistrict @WildLakeland

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

I’m furious that the Government has launched an #AttackOnNature . I care deeply about nature, so they don’t do this in my name. I’ve written urgently to my MP. Will you do the same? Follow this link to find out how.

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@leeinthelakes

1 year

I've just hung out the laundry. In November. In Cumbria. Wrong wrong wrong.

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@leeinthelakes

3 years

The wood pasture above Naddle Farm is like a gothic painting this morning. #LakeDistrict #trees

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@leeinthelakes

4 years

Just been to visit the #Coombesheadbeavers in #Devon . Incredible how one #beaver family has transformed this valley. 7 years ago, before they arrived, there was a single 18in wide stream, now there is an incredible wetland complex.

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1 year

Diversity returns to Lakeland stream after restoration puts its bends back

Nature ‘in charge again’ at Swindale Beck for first time in 200 years as award-winning conservation project bears fruit

www.theguardian.com

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

On Great Mell Fell, a handful of ponies have replaced sheep, resulting in a tremendous recovery of Atlantic heath. Giant tussocks of bryophytes and dwarf shrubs now carpet the summit. Hats off to @nationaltrust and their tenant farmers who manage the hill.

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@leeinthelakes

3 years

Just watched the #boatrace . What an incredibly depressing fenland landscape it was set in. Poker straight river, rectilinear trees, ploughed peat spewing carbon into the atmosphere, scarcely a tree. Ecologically nightmarish.

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@leeinthelakes

3 years

If you see bracken as a problem, here is the solution. #trees

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

Trying to do the right thing by taking the train to Devon next month. Best fare available is £203 return, 4 weeks in advance, and no tickets on available the Sunday when I want to come back. Even with current high fuel costs, would be half that price to drive. Annoying.

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@leeinthelakes

1 year

Blea Water, living up to the name the Vikings gave it. Blea means dark blue in old Norse. At 63m, it's the deepest tarn in the @lakedistrictnpa and one of the jewels in @WildHaweswater ’s many studded crown.

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@leeinthelakes

6 years

Really encouraging to see how well moorland restoration work combined with livestock removal around Haweswater is keeping land wet. These photos taken yesterday, after weeks without rain. Proper wet peatland has low fire risk & delivers a huge range of other ecosystem benefits

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

Just had the amazing privilege of watching a group of Bluefin Tuna hunting off the tip of Land's End, complete with fish breaking the surface as they fled and plenty of breaching. Spectacular. To think they were barely in Cornish waters a decade ago.

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2 years

Not so long ago I could have walked across this field, and wellies would have been more than enough to keep me dry. This morning, now that we've changed how the land is grazed, the dew on the long grass soaked me up to my thighs. So, what's changed? (🧵...)

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

I am honestly blown away to find myself in this spectacularly fine company. Mental.

The Wainwright Prize

@wainwrightprize

2 years

The #WainwrightPrize22 shortlist for #Conservation is…💙 Eating to Extinction, @DanSaladinoUK Our Biggest Experiment, Alice Bell Regenesis, @GeorgeMonbiot Silent Earth, @DaveGoulson The Insect Crisis, @olliemilman The Treeline, @BenRawlence Wild Fell, @leeinthelakes #JCWP22

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@leeinthelakes

1 year

BOOK GIVEAWAY! Retweet this and follow me and @WildHaweswater to be in with chance of winning one of five copies of the #WildFell paperback, hot off the press. Will select the five winners at random on publication day, 9th March.

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@leeinthelakes

1 year

Hope is a sapling in the mountains.

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

Getting a review in the @guardian is a big deal any day of the week. Getting one as beautiful as this has pretty much made my year. Thank you @AmyJaneBeer .

Wild Fell by Lee Schofield review – can the Lake District be rewilded?

A conservationist finds that efforts to restore this cherished landscape to a more natural state aren’t always welcomed

www.theguardian.com

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@leeinthelakes

4 years

We made a short film about the project which you can watch here

Swindale Beck

Swindale is a valley in the eastern edge of the Lake District. It’s one of two farms where the RSPB are working together with water company United Utilities ...

www.youtube.com

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@leeinthelakes

4 months

This Christmas Eve, I'm feeling huge gratitude to the 17k or so people that have bought a copy of Wild Fell, the 2k that have borrowed it from a library, anybody who has left a kind review, and many others who have helped it fly. I'm still astonished it exists. Merry Christmas 🙏

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

May this, by Wendell Berry, bring you some calm on #WorldPoetryDay

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@leeinthelakes

1 year

Congratulations to our pals over at @wildennerdale as the place becomes a new National Nature Reserve today. A very special corner of the world, cared for by special people. Wonderful to see it recognised in this way.

3,000 hectares of spectacular Lake District landscape becomes a new National Nature Reserve

The new ‘Wild Ennerdale National Nature Reserve’ will protect over 3,000 hectares of landscape comprising of water, forests and mountains.

www.gov.uk

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@leeinthelakes

1 year

Called in at Carrifran on my home from a fun weekend in Edinburgh with my daughter. Can't really express just how much Iove this place. A living testament to people power and nature's ability to heal. Still blows my mind that the place was treeless 20 years ago.

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@leeinthelakes

1 year

An exceedingly Merry Christmas & heartfelt thanks to anyone who has read, borrowed, purchased, edited, represented, publicised, said nice things, or done anything else to support Wild Fell. You've made this an extraordinary year for this fledgling writer. Peace & love to you all.

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2 years

Bloody hell, the retweets and replies to this. It properly blows my mind that there are so many people still denying climate breakdown. Of course the @nationaltrust should be doing all they can to try to tackle it, as should every one us.

National Trust

@nationaltrust

2 years

Be part of the Great Big Green Week and add your voice today. Write your Letters To Tomorrow and join the movement for urgent action against climate change. #GreatBigGreenWeek

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2 years

It's been a burnet moth on a pyramidal orchid sort of a day.

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3 years

Square vs round: a short thread about hay. Like many other farms, we've been making hay this week in our wonderful meadows in Swindale, part of @WildHaweswater . We decided to make small square bales, rather than big round ones. Here's why.

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1 year

Is there a finer spring flower than the Wood Anemone? Delighted to see these today by the River Eamont, #Cumbria , even if they weren't quite ready to show themselves in their full glory. #wildflowerhour

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3 years

Upland oasis

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2 years

Nothing like a drift of woodland snowdrops seen through a lichen spattered gate to cheer up an otherwise doom-laden day.

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7 months

Like many of the best trees, this one was planted by a bird.

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@leeinthelakes

7 months

Grow well little one. The Earth needs your shade and shelter.

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4 years

If the clarity of the water in Swindale Beck (taken during a brief break in today's heavy #rain ) is anything to go by, our combination of bog and river restoration, livestock reduction and floodplain reconnection is working very satisfactorily. #Cumbria

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1 year

I work in Narnia.

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2 years

Really good to see how sensitively @LancasterUni are managing their grasslands on campus, with large areas left to grow, full of native plants and invertebrates. Imagine if all amenity grasslands were looked after in the same way.

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@leeinthelakes

3 years

Prompted by discussion with @herdyshepherd1 , I've written a series of articles about species that have become extinct in the #LakeDistrict , many of which have left their marks as place names. Here's a thread to bind them all together...

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

It's easy to feel glum about the state of nature, but within about two minutes of walking out into @RSPBLeightonM I saw marsh harriers and peregrines, two species that were perilously close to extinction not so long ago. We can pull nature back from the precipice, and we must.

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@leeinthelakes

1 year

A farmer visiting Swindale last year tried to claim that we couldn't possibly be making hay since remeandering the beck. Think the latest images from Bing Maps (2021) puts the matter to bed. Love that they even show the small bales & folks loading them up. #FarmingWithNature

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@leeinthelakes

3 years

From this point at the bottom of Swindale, for about 6 miles to the very top of the catchment, no fertilisers, pesticides, or muck have been applied for a decade. (short thread...)

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1 year

Utterly, utterly shameful.

UK’s first new coalmine for 30 years gets go-ahead in Cumbria

Michael Gove greenlights £165m project that will produce estimated 400,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions a year

www.theguardian.com

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1 year

Spectacular new wetland area on the River Lowther floodplain at Setterah Park, all created by the simple act of smashing up land drains & letting beavers upstream divert some water. Hooching with teal, snipe & lapwings. Amazing how fast nature recovers when water returns.

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

Very important thread and blog on a subject I've been banging on about for ages. Bracken indicates the absolute best places for woodland restoration, where there would be very few downsides.

Guy Shrubsole

@guyshrubsole

2 years

Bracken is thought by some to be an indicator of former woodland. New maps I've been passed reveal that bracken covers over 50,000 acres of Dartmoor & the Lake District. Can we use bracken maps as a guide for regenerating temperate rainforest? 🧵1/n

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2 years

This news last week was ridiculously exciting for us all at @WildHaweswater . Not only did these two birds come and explore Haweswater, but it was the only place they visited, before heading back north again. Our hope is that they were scoping out potential future nest sites.

Wild Haweswater

@WildHaweswater

2 years

Exciting news! 🦅 The team at South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project have contacted us to share that TWO of their Golden Eagles recently explored the full length of Haweswater together! Emma (F02, female) and Tarras (male, A31)👇 Meet Tarras here 👉

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9 months

Water lobelia, an indicator of low nutrient, very clean water bodies. Loads of it adorning the shallows of Small Water today. A gorgeous, graceful thing.

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1 year

The deep, simple, touchable joy that is the year's first celandine flower.

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3 years

My chickens would like to know why it is that they have to be incarcerated to protect them from bird flu, when pheasants, which are clearly also farmed birds, get to strut about free. They are pretty pissed off about the injustice of it all actually.

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

Pretty happy with that!

The Wainwright Prize

@wainwrightprize

2 years

The judging panel also wanted to highly commend ‘Wild Fell’ by @leeinthelakes published by @TransworldBooks . Congratulations! #WainwrightPrize22 #JCWP22

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1 year

Found out my phone is waterproof. Here's a short dive into Swindale Beck.

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@leeinthelakes

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There can't be many mature oak woods where simply standing up is enough to see above the canopy. Young Wood is one of them. Enough to make even a hobbit feel gigantic.

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Lee Schofield

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Working with @NECumbria we'll grow the acorns I collected into trees in the @WildHaweswater nursery, and then plant them back out to help the wood to expand. By standing in for the jays and squirrels, we can help the wood attain the size needed to attract and sustain them again.

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Lee Schofield

@leeinthelakes

2 years

Oh joy.

UK Prime Minister

@10DowningStreet

2 years

The Rt Hon Dr Thérèse Coffey MP @ThereseCoffey has been appointed Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs @DefraGovUK . #Reshuffle

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Lee Schofield

@leeinthelakes

7 months

Grow well little one. The Earth needs your shade and shelter.

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@leeinthelakes

9 months

A big moment! A lot of work from a lot of fine, dedicated people went into making this happen. Can't wait to see how their population spreads out from @WildHaweswater over the coming months and years. BBC News - Water voles back in the Lake District

Water voles brought back to the Lake District

More than 200 water voles are released in restored habitat in Cumbria, having previously been wiped out.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Lee Schofield

@leeinthelakes

2 years

Why is the @BBC still posing this as a question? There is no doubt. Suggesting that there is, is seriously dangerous. #ClimateEmergency

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Lee Schofield

@leeinthelakes

2 years

So good to see farmers like Sam extolling the virtues of beavers.

Sam Vincent

@Vince_Rookery

2 years

No drought here thanks to a pair of beavers relocated from Scotland. We need to see much more of this on our rivers in the Uk. Glad to contribute. #UptheBeavers 🦫🌿💦

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Lee Schofield

@leeinthelakes

3 years

Swindale beck was hooching with #salmon today. Great to see this pair guarding their redd. @EnvAgencyNW @RSPBEngland @unitedutilities @WildHaweswater

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Lee Schofield

@leeinthelakes

2 years

A great flock of chuckling fieldfares enveloped me as I went down the hill this evening. Tragic that they'll arrive on our shores to find miles of hedges in this sorry state, so many berries they might have feasted on sacrificed in the name of tidiness.

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Lee Schofield

@leeinthelakes

2 months

Coltsfoot thriving in a rushing Lakeland beck. Flowers are hardcore.

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@leeinthelakes

2 years

I'm frankly a bit stunned by the kind things that @isabella_tree , @patrick_barkham , @DaveGoulson and @MarkCocker2 have said about Wild Fell. I might need a lie down.

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