DARTMOOR VISION
The Commoners Council and the National Park Authority
have formed an alliance with Natural England, English
Heritage, Defra, Defence Estates and the Environment
Agency. It has agreed a ‘vision’ for the conservation of
Dartmoor to 2030. The vision is enshrined in a map. All
parties will work to an agreed framework of action to
conserve and enhance the landscape. The vision is of
an open but farmed landscape containing a mosaic of
different types of vegetation and habitats, with fourteen
Premier Archaeological Landscapes protected, and the
vegetation managed by grazing livestock. Dartmoor’s
blanket bog, which acts as a big sponge, will be managed
to survive climate change as long as possible, thereby
protecting water quality and quantity.
