{"id":7217,"date":"2018-04-04T08:25:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T08:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7217"},"modified":"2018-04-04T08:25:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T08:25:06","slug":"the-missing-swindale-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2018\/04\/04\/the-missing-swindale-sheep\/","title":{"rendered":"The missing Swindale sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"

There's a fine RSPB video<\/a> about their work with United Utilities in a small Lake District valley, Swindale [the vale of the pig]. \u00a0Here's Rory Stewart's description<\/a> of Swindale:<\/p>\n

\"Swindale has always felt like a hidden miracle \u2013 a tight-necked valley, opening into bright green fields by the river, a great tongue of land in the centre, neat and fierce as a fairy-castle, and the cold waterfalls coming down from pool to pool. In the bright sun, it might appear a corner of Jurassic Park. But, on the facing slope you can see the long-lines of dry-stone wall running almost vertically up the fellside \u2013 enclosing the mountain-face in irregular geometrical slices. Each stretch is perhaps the work of a different generation: brothers dividing their patrimony, and extending their grandfather\u2019s work.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The RSPB video tells a good re-wilding sort of story, full of flowers, birds, insects, fish, amphibians, trees, heather, bogs, waterfalls, etc (and a bizarre amount of blue sky). \u00a0What you don't see are farmers or sheep which is what you would have seen in times past. \u00a0The RSPB claims not to be against sheep farming in principle; their practice might be another matter as Rory Stewart hints<\/a> at.<\/p>\n

Here's what the Federation of Cumbrian Commoners had to say<\/a> back in 2013. \u00a0The Commoners have a personal interest in sheep farming, as I noted a while back when another re-wilder popped up to Penrith<\/a> to talk to them. \u00a0They must be concerned at all this talk of re-wilding, especially when the 're-' part seems somewhat disingenuous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There's a fine RSPB video about their work with United Utilities in a small Lake District valley, Swindale [the vale of the pig]. \u00a0Here's Rory Stewart's description of Swindale: \"Swindale has always felt like a hidden miracle \u2013 a tight-necked...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}