Innovative upland eroded peat restoration project using felted wool containing heather and grass seed. Brecon Beacons, Wales, UK

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Volunteer project led by a local artist, Pip Woolf, to help restore a small area of eroded upland peat (caused by a fire in 1976). Felt mats (wool sausages) from Welsh wool, encapsulated with heather seed, were carried by volunteers and pinned into place with hand-made wooden pegs to form a 300m-long 'woollen line' in 2010. Each year, further sausages have been added, containing grass seed. See: and for more information

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Size: 3776px × 2520px
Location: Pen Trumau, Black Mountains, Brecon Beacons National Park, South Wales, Great Britain, UK, Europe
Photo credit: © Alec Scaresbrook / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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