Project handbook and Layman's report on the website
Published on 11/Apr/2011 Now that the project has come to an end, the final publications have been produced. A technica Read MoreLife Active Blanket Bog in Wales Conference
Published on 25/Mar/2011 The project conference took place on the 8th and 9th March at the Lake Vyrnwy Hotel. A day Read MoreLake Vyrnwy to Aberdeen
Published on 21/Mar/2011 The LIFE Project is in the home-straight as it will end on the 31st March 2011. From the ori Read MoreLIFE on Countryfile – again
Published on 21/Mar/2011 Four years ago, Michaela Strachan and the BBC Countryfile team visited Lake Vyrnwy to film t Read MoreStock safety
Published on 07/Mar/2011 Research carried out by the project has shown that drain blocking on blanket bog can benefit Read MoreLIFE and science
Published on 01/Mar/2011 The LIFE Project is working with the National Trust on the Ysbyty Ifan estate to block over Read MoreWalk and Talk Events
Published on 16/Feb/2011 An illustrated talk by Mike Morris on the Blanket Bog Project at Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre f Read MoreLIFE on the Migneint
Published on 16/Feb/2011 The LIFE Blanket Bog Project has part funded ditch blocking on the National Trust land on the M Read MoreLIFE Project Conference
Published on 18/Jan/2011 The project is nearing its' end now and to review our work and that of others we are staging a proje Read MoreBlocking at Vyrnwy finished!
Published on 04/Jan/2011 The ditch blocking work at Lake Vyrnwy has finally been completed! R.G Evans and Sons have b Read MoreFrozen Vyrnwy
Published on 19/Jan/2010
Just like the rest of the country, the LIFE project site at Lake Vyrnwy has been blanketed with snow for what seems like forever now! The first falls just before Christmas made the reserve look like a scene from a Christmas card.
Mike and Jude managed to get up onto the moor with Ann Humble from the Welsh Assembly Government to show her the some examples of the ditch blocking work. She did have to use a small amount of imagination when being told what the ditches and dams looked like under all of the snow.
The snow kept falling after Christmas so the ditch blocking and alien species removal have come to a grinding halt. Fortunately, the reserve assistants had worked so hard up until December that they are way ahead of schedule. They are still on target to eradicate all the self-seeding trees by the end of March. The ditch blocking has now had quite a substantial delay but the contractors are hoping to get back onto the moors as soon as possible. The hydrological monitoring has also been impossible with all of the sampling locations being frozen.
Just to give you an idea of how cold it has been here, the temperatures were so low during the first half of January that large sections of the lake began to freeze, something that has not been seen to this extent since 1986.
However you cannot deny that despite the cold and disruption the snow has brought, it has certainly made the reserve a stunning place to work and visit - if you can get here of course!
