Saturday 14 May 2011: Out on the wiley, windy moors we’d roll and fall in green…

A morning clearing saplings

“You can get up now, it’s lunchtime!”

from Adel Moor, the last patch of original heathland in Leeds, and well worth preserving as a unique habitat for that reason alone.  Birch and oak saplings are encroaching on the moor, and killing off the heather and other moorland plants.  The birch saplings are particularly invasive – there are hundreds of small seedlings from an inch in size upwards.

You never know what you might find on the moor! Have a look at this!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxZiDQ6Iw5s

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