peat cutting

The island is used for sheep grazing and peat cutting.

I. This path was gradually destroyed through regular peat cutting.

It is believed to be the a remnant of medieval peat cutting.

The gentleman proved surprizingly knowledgeable about the art of peat cutting.

The Kvígandalsá river's beautiful little bridge forms part of a road that was built to facilitate peat cutting.

Peat cutting exists in the northwest of the county, in the Cuilcagh range.

It was formerly used for peat cutting, especially in the south, but has regenerated itself after measures to raise the water levels were introduced.

Fens have been damaged in the past by land drainage, and also by peat cutting.

The area still retains local peat cutting.

Commercial peat cutting ceased here altogether in 1991 and restoration work, as far as this is possible, has been carried out since then.

When the practice of peat cutting was discontinued, the ditches in the area filled with water and bogs were formed.

Due to intensive peat cutting, the water balance of the area was disturbed, resulting in the death of some plant species.

The clay was extracted by simply digging out the lumps on courses-rather like peat cutting.

Stops let you try peat cutting.

A certain amount of peat cutting has taken place, especially beside the road to Sevencares and Kilwinning.

Even those bogs that are still intact - like the Günnemoor - continue to be denuded by industrial peat cutting.

Landslides (peatslips), caused by excessive peat cutting, destroyed part of the town in 1879 and 1886, the second landslide killing two people.

They were forever breaking up each other 's fish-weirs and quarrelling over competing interests in pasture and peat cutting.

Peat cutting continued to fall outside the Bergregal, as did the quarrying of gravel, clay, marl and limestone.

There have been many finds of metalwork during peat cutting, which may have been devotional offerings.

Den Hulst gradually merged with the settlement of Nieuwleusen to the south, which had its origin in peat cutting and agricultural activity.

The many old peat cuttings have also filled with water, creating small pools filled with vegetation at various stages of succession throughout the reserve.

Barnby Broad itself is an area of open water resulting from medieval peat cutting and is part of the Broads system.

The fields were cultivated by peat cuttings or Plaggen from the heathlands on their outskirts and turned into productive Eschflur field systems.

While peat cutting was conducted in prehistoric and Middle Ages times, there has been no harvesting of peat in the modern era.