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A new 3,000-acre landscape restoration project is under way in the Yorkshire Dales which aims to create woodlands that will capture carbon, reduce flooding and restore wildlife. The barren, limestone-paved ‘lunarlike’ former pastureland will reconnect nature reserves, and new native woodland will be created within the next year, partly through planting and partly through natural regeneration. Wild Ingleborough will become a blueprint of restoration, if the planting of juniper, bird’s eye primrose and ferns restores the habitats of black grouse, red squirrels, cuckoos and curlews goes as planned. This kind of careful intervention will no doubt have a restorative effect on the psyche of the human visitors and residents as well.
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