Meadows scheme extended (From Craven Herald)

Meadows scheme extended

11:00am Thursday 12th March 2009 in

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Restoration of meadows throughout the Yorkshire Dales looks set to continue for at least three more years, thanks to further funding for the Hay Time project.

The Clapham-based Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust (YDMT) has been awarded extra Countdown 2010 funding from Natural England for the project, which was set up in 2006 with the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority. Since then, locally harvested meadow seed has been added to more than 90 hectares of meadows that have lost some of the wide range of wildflowers and grasses that meadows managed in the traditional way support.

Don Gamble, Hay Time project manager, said: “We’ll now be able to survey more meadows and set up more restoration schemes.

“Meadow restoration doesn’t happen overnight and the project extension will also enable us to keep a closer eye on restored meadows to see how they’re doing.”

Further information on the Hay Time project can be downloaded from the resources section of the trust’s website at ydmt.org.