Hedgerow loss.
by Lewis, 28 October, 2016, 4 comments
Much has been written about the loss of hedges / hedgerows over the last fifty to seventy years; one important work was “Hedges’ (1974) in the New Naturalist Series by Pollard, Hooper and Moore. They suggested that hedgerows were lost perhaps at a rate of some 3,000 miles per year in the immediate post-war period (1946 - 63). In the 1950’s, the Forestry Commission suggested that there was one million kilometres of hedgerow (in the U.K). In 2007, The Countryside Commission Survey estimated that there was some 477,00 kilometres of hedgerow - suggesting that there had been a halving of hedgerows in the countryside. Read more...
