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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, 1 December 2011

Crayfish Project Film


This is a short film about the work being done by the Environment Agency and local ecological consultant, PBA Applied Ecology, in conjunction with the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority to protect the native white-clawed crayfish in the rivers of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The crayfish face two threats - the American signal crayfish and the crayfish plague that they carry. Work is being done to remove the American signal crayfish from the rivers, as well as breeding the white-clayed crayfish in captivity and releasing them into the wild. For more details, see http://www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/whiteclawedcrayfish.htm.
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