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Malham Tarn Field Centre, situated near Malham Tarn in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, North Yorkshire, England. Follow this blog to keep up to date with current goings on at the Tarn.
The centre is run by the Field Studies Council and is popular with both geography and biology students, as well as the wider public. Opened in 1947, the Centre celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2007.Within walking distance of the Centre are famous limestone features including Malham Cove, Gordale Scar and spectacular karst landscapes. The route of the Pennine Way footpath runs very close to the buildings. Nearby habitats include limestone pavement, grazed and ungrazed grassland, woodland and species-rich fen, acid peat pools and stony hill streams. Malham Tarn itself is one of only eight upland alkaline lakes in Europe.

For more information please go to
http://www.field-studies-council.org/malhamtarn/index.aspx




Thursday, 16 December 2010

Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority

This year during half terms and summer holidays the education team met members of the public to deliver events at different National Park centres. The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority enlisted the help of the field centre to deliver drop in sessions varying from woodland invertebrate hunting freshwater stream dipping. All of the sessions were well received, seeing some events attracting more than 100 people. The staff could be found in locations such as Malham, Bolton Abbey, Aysgarth and Reeth. Some of the participants had heard of the event via the National Park centre and their publications, whilst others came across the activities on their way.

Stream dipping at Bolton Abbey
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