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.
As part of the wider programme of natural flood management work on Harford and Ugborough Moors, research is being carried out to assess different techniques for increasing tree cover on the common. We meet Tom Murphy, a lecturer from the University of Plymouth, to find out more about the process, and how an increase in tree cover can benefit the common.
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