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Hill-Farmer Attitudes to Peatland Restoration on the Commons of Dartmoor
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Hill-Farmer Attitudes to Peatland Restoration on the Commons of Dartmoor

byAdrian Colston

2026

Commissioned by the Forest of Dartmoor Commoners Association and the South West Peatland Partnership, this research investigates hill-farmer attitudes to the peatland restoration works taking place on Dartmoor's Commons, an important perspective as re-wetting programmes expand across the moor's blanket bog.

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