FoUW Understanding Ullswater Evening Talk - 19.30 in Parkin Memorial Hall, Pooley Bridge and on ZOOM

Lee has been the RSPB Senior Site Manager at Haweswater since 2013. A decade ago the RSPB took on the tenancies of two hill farms at Haweswater. They now work in partnership with landowner United Utilities to manage the land in a way that benefits water, wildlife and people. He has shared his experiences in his book, Wild Fell: Fighting for Nature on a Lake District Hill Farm, published by Penguin this year. Wild Fell tells the story of the efforts to breathe life back into thirty square kilometres of upland habitat. 

Informed, by the land, its history and the people who have shaped it, Lee and his team have re-meandered a straightened river and repaired damaged wetlands, meadows and woods. The landscape is becoming richer, wilder and better able to withstand the shocks of a changing climate. 

But in the contested landscape of the Lake District, change is not…