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<blockquote data-quote="Richard III" data-source="post: 5865216" data-attributes="member: 933"><p>Best thing I can tell you is to buy the book Will, I'd very surprised if you considered it a waste of time and money.</p><p></p><p>Many internationally renowned experts in their individual fields are involved with what is going on at Knepp, Isabella Tree has absorbed a huge amount of information from them, made plenty of her own observations and then laid it out in a very readable book.</p><p></p><p>What has been done at Knepp is inspired by what happened in the Oostvaardersplassen Project in the Netherlands, when land was (by accident, not design) allowed to revert to scrub and wetland. This area attracted Greylag Geese, their grazing disrupted the expected vegetative succession and increased diversity, so they chucked grazing animals in and got more diversity. Seeing this they added a variety of different types of grazing animals in and the whole place started to really take off in unexpected ways.</p><p></p><p>I believed that before we started ripping the place up Britain was largely Oak forest, not so at all according to Isabella, it was a mixture of scrub, trees, grazing and wild boar - resetting succession where they root, and I think she is probably right.</p><p></p><p>She questions the way we observe how wildlife behaves and then implement conservation measures, many species aren't behaving naturally in our environment, they have adapted to survive in it and some are on the edge of being able to do so. The Turtle Dove is a great example, at Knepp they are doing none of the conservation measures that are desperately being done elsewhere in the UK to prevent the bird going extinct on our shores, yet they are the only place in the whole country where breeding numbers are increasing.</p><p></p><p>The book impresses upon you the extreme complexity and diversity of a natural environment and the more complexity there is, then the more resilient it is to what ever change or extremes are thrown at it. </p><p></p><p>It's an incredible story of how the place has evolved and a major challenge for many people, farmers in particular to embrace what appears to be letting a place go to wrack and ruin. I can get my head around it, but I think I will have to go there and see what my eyes make off it!</p><p></p><p>After reading the book I have shifted how I think farming and conservation should go forward in the future. I still believe more nature friendly farming systems such as ours need encouraging and developing. However stewardship schemes desperately need re evaluating and other areas like Knepp need to be created in suitable areas - and linked where possible. </p><p></p><p>It's also made me look and evaluate what is happening on this farm. Quite a few species have taken advantage of Conservation Ag here and over time more will probably learn to adapt and move in. However everything is so transient and fast moving in our modern world, whatever I've created here will be gone and changed to something else in the blink of an evolutionary eye. It's a very challenging environment for nature to thrive in.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richard III, post: 5865216, member: 933"] Best thing I can tell you is to buy the book Will, I'd very surprised if you considered it a waste of time and money. Many internationally renowned experts in their individual fields are involved with what is going on at Knepp, Isabella Tree has absorbed a huge amount of information from them, made plenty of her own observations and then laid it out in a very readable book. What has been done at Knepp is inspired by what happened in the Oostvaardersplassen Project in the Netherlands, when land was (by accident, not design) allowed to revert to scrub and wetland. This area attracted Greylag Geese, their grazing disrupted the expected vegetative succession and increased diversity, so they chucked grazing animals in and got more diversity. Seeing this they added a variety of different types of grazing animals in and the whole place started to really take off in unexpected ways. I believed that before we started ripping the place up Britain was largely Oak forest, not so at all according to Isabella, it was a mixture of scrub, trees, grazing and wild boar - resetting succession where they root, and I think she is probably right. She questions the way we observe how wildlife behaves and then implement conservation measures, many species aren't behaving naturally in our environment, they have adapted to survive in it and some are on the edge of being able to do so. The Turtle Dove is a great example, at Knepp they are doing none of the conservation measures that are desperately being done elsewhere in the UK to prevent the bird going extinct on our shores, yet they are the only place in the whole country where breeding numbers are increasing. The book impresses upon you the extreme complexity and diversity of a natural environment and the more complexity there is, then the more resilient it is to what ever change or extremes are thrown at it. It's an incredible story of how the place has evolved and a major challenge for many people, farmers in particular to embrace what appears to be letting a place go to wrack and ruin. I can get my head around it, but I think I will have to go there and see what my eyes make off it! After reading the book I have shifted how I think farming and conservation should go forward in the future. I still believe more nature friendly farming systems such as ours need encouraging and developing. However stewardship schemes desperately need re evaluating and other areas like Knepp need to be created in suitable areas - and linked where possible. It's also made me look and evaluate what is happening on this farm. Quite a few species have taken advantage of Conservation Ag here and over time more will probably learn to adapt and move in. However everything is so transient and fast moving in our modern world, whatever I've created here will be gone and changed to something else in the blink of an evolutionary eye. It's a very challenging environment for nature to thrive in. [/QUOTE]
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