Background

Trained 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

• 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

New: 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:
  • Base-poor NS
  • Base-rich NS
• 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

This user is a participant in WikiProject Agriculture.

This user is a member of WikiProject Protected Areas.

This user is a biologist.