Nattergal - High Fen Wildland - Peat Survey
Located in the Norfolk Fens is Nattergal’s High Fen Wildland a fenland restoration project aiming to use natural processes to help restore a drained grassland system back into a thriving fen and wetland mosaic.
Of particular interest here is the wetland ecology of the fens, with peat restoration being a primary driver of this work - as healthy peat not only provides a unique habitat, but has the capacity to sequester carbon.
Newly pulled cores ready for processing.
The mobile coring platform operated by Agricarbon.
This month the Exo team found themselves exploring innovative approaches to surveying lowland fenland and peat coring at the High Fen Wildland Site, in Norfolk.
Working with Agricarbon on this project, a mobile coring platform was used to rapidly retrieve cores across the ~230ha of the site.
Processing and analysing the retrieved cores, the Exo team sought to establish the extent and depth of the peat across the site.
Over 200 cores were taken and processed, with peat seen to be present across large swathes of the High Fen Wildland Site, a great starting point for wetland restoration.
The novel surveying and analysis method employed on this site could be a way forward to working on large lowland fenland environments and processing peatland data.
200+ completed cores in record time!
We’d like to give thanks to both Nattergal and Agricarbon for the opportunity to work at High Fen, a site with great potential for restoration works!
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