Peat Cutting
1 sound
The sounds of cutting peat returns as Barbara Clorley and Bill Allmark talk about their working life. Commercial peat cutting ended at Fenn's and Whixall Moss in 1989, and the National Nature Reserve was established soon after to protect and restore the area as peatbog. The Marches Mosses BogLIFE project aims to transform the degraded peatbog from being a net carbon emitter to being a vital carbon store once again, and to help the biodiversity of this landscape thrive.
No peat was harmed in the recording of this soundscape
One recording of digging courtesy of https://freesound.org/people/lollosound/sounds/124916/
