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In The Footsteps of a Nightingale
In The Footsteps of a Nightingale
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by Robert Brittle
In The Footsteps of aNightingale
Oak, 08:45; June
'Natural' Woodland: Spring
Lea Wood is situated within the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site in Derbyshire, England. On the edge of England's first national park and just a short drive from Matlock Bath. The woodland is situated at the gateway to one of England's most visited areas, attracting thousands of visitors annually. The woodland encapsulates over 300 years of human interaction, completing this evolution by being returned to a natural woodland, in a managed process by Derbyshire Wildlife Trust.
The earth's surface, which the woodland now occupies, shows the scars of historical events, the woodland can be considered as a microcosm that mirrors wider issues around land use. The previous generations decisions of how they have managed the earth's surface for agriculture use, early industrial processes (lead mining and smelting), Victorian landscape gardens, local populous and finally naturalists, have and continue to shape a surface that one day will be inherited by my children, what they will inherit still remains questionable not just in Lea but also on a global scale.
