Dinsdale Moorland has undertaken a restoration project on The Glasson Moss SSSI area, part of the South Solway Mosses.

The project consisted of restoration of cut over degraded peat surface and cut peat faces covering 1.3ha.

The South Solway Mosses SAC is a Lowland Raised Bog (LRB), designated for Active Raised Bogs and Degraded raised bog still capable of natural regeneration. The LRB originally extended to around 2500ha, but now only 2000ha remains which make up the SAC. There is about 640ha of primary active M18 Erica tetralix – Sphagnum papillosum raised mire surface, and the remainder has been modified through cutting for domestic peat, commercially extracted by machine (cut and milled) and drained and improved for agricultural purposes. There is almost no lagg remaining and the majority of the four bogs are surrounded by deep maintained drains, of which 50% are probably modified lagg streams.

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