Commons Stories is a collection of stories from four upland common regions across England: Dartmoor, the Yorkshire Dales, the Lake District and the Shropshire Hills.
You’ll find written and photographic portraits of people, short videos, audio clips, and reflections on events through the year, as well as reflections on some of the challenges of building sustainable futures for people and landscape in these special places.
The collection is put together by somewhere nowhere duo, writer Harriet Fraser and photographer Rob Fraser, with contributions from commoners using GoPro cameras to capture snippets of their day-to-day lives on the farm and in the hills.
Molinia cover has been extending across Dartmoor national park over the last 30 years. An Our Upland Commons project has been trialling methods to reduce its dominance and bring back a mosaic of habitats. Adrian Colston talks to Harriet Fraser about this project and the challenges of making changes in a landscape where there are many different organisations and individuals involved.
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