Background
editTrained as an ecologist, work as a professional ecologist, and also farm traditional beef cattle and sheep, using them for conservation grazing on heathlands and marshes. Based in the New Forest in southern England; have also lived in Surrey, Ceredigion, Radnorshire, Sussex and Kent. A lifetime nature anorak, with vast stores of almost useless information about wildlife...
Interests
edit- Airships
- Agriculture, especially pastoralism, agricultural biodiversity and agricultural history.
- Cycling
- Domestic animal breeds, especially:
- British White cattle and related types
- Chillingham wild cattle
- Shetland sheep and other primitive breeds
- Sussex cattle
- Welsh Pony
- Welsh Sheepdog and other collies
- Wessex Saddleback pig and other old European breeds
- Ecology
- British and other ecosystems, especially rough-grazing habitats, British vegetation, botany, birds, etc etc
- Wildlife conservation, including species protection, designated areas, rewilding and reintroduction
- European megafauna, including wild cattle and wild boar
- Four-wheel drive vehicles, especially Land Rovers
- Geomorphology.
- Horses, especially draught horses and driving.
- Language, especially English.
- Sailing
Articles
editNew: N. Significantly enhanced (I hope) E. Stub: S. Disambiguation page: D
- Agricultural fencing E
- Ancient Woodland E
- Australian Collie NS
- Base-rich and base-poor NS. Amalgamated from earlier:
- Black Baldy NS
- Black Hereford NS
- Blue Grey NS
- British White E
- Bog E
- British Hunter NS
- Cattle crush NS
- Cattle race NS
- Chalk heath NS
- Chicory E (Break out Chicorium info and reorganise.)
- Cichorium ES (from redirect, using info from Chicory)
- City Press (London) NS
- Collie E
- Colour-sided NS
- Conservation grazing NS
- Coppicing E
- Dominance (ecology) NS
- European beaver E
- Electric fence E
- Feral goat N from section in Goat
- Finching (cattle) NS
- Glossary of sheep husbandry E
- Grazing marsh NS
- Hampshire gate NS
- Hunter Sonata NS
- High forest (woodland) NS
- Hilling ES
- Livestock Unit N
- Lupinus formosus NS from material in mission blue butterfly
- Lupinus variicolor NS from material in mission blue butterfly
- Lotus subbiflorus NS
- Minerotrophic NS
- Mole (disambiguation) ED
- Northern European short-tailed sheep N
- Ombrotrophic ES
- Pass ED
- Phragmites E
- Plough E
- Pollarding E
- Polled livestock ES
- Portland ED
- Poor fen NS
- Reed bed E
- Reed (plant) ED
- Ridge and furrow E
- Scottish Dunface N
- Sedge ED
- Shaw (woodland) NS
- Site of Nature Conservation Interest ES
- Site of Special Scientific Interest E
- Stream capture E (merge to this of River capture)
- Swingletree NS
- Terret NS
- Tine (structural) ES
- Ulex minor N
- Urtica dioica galeopsifolia NS
- Veteran tree NS
- Watermeadow E
- Welsh Sheepdog NS
- Welsh Mountain sheep NS from Balwen Welsh Mountain sheep stub.
- Wessex Saddleback NS
- Whippletree (draught) NS
- Whitebred Shorthorn NS
Projects
editThis user is a participant in WikiProject Agriculture. |
This user is a member of WikiProject Protected Areas. |
This user is a biologist. |