Care-Peat Portal

Little Woolden Moss (United Kingdom)

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In addition to the carbon farm at Winmarleigh, on LWT’s Little Woolden Moss nature reserve in Salford, Greater Manchester, we are testing different combination planting techniques for their effect on greenhouse gas emissions and in terms of best practice restoration of this ex-peat extraction site. Little Woolden Moss (LWM) is a 107 ha lowland raised bog that was extracted for peat until 2012 and in parts as recently as December 2017. The site is wholly owned by LWT and restoration of the bare peat has commenced on areas of the site. As part of Care-Peat, a 2 ha area of bare peat is being revegetated by a combination of Sphagnum Mosses and sedges designed to promote rapid colonisation and minimise the time taken to the return the site to a CO2 sink. This work applies research findings on the C benefits of specific plant mixes.

If you want to review the data generated for the Little Woolden Mos test site during the Care-Peat project, please browse them in the data page.

The different scientifics maps developed for the Little Woolden Mos test site during the Care-Peat project can be found on the map page.

The laws and regulations that are relevant to the Little Woolden Mos test site are listed in the policies page.