Cultivating a Dialogue: Rewilding, Heritage Landscapes, and Belonging

Tokarski, Mateusz; Gammon, Andrea R.

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“…There is a particular knowledge gap surrounding the social and cultural impacts of increasing woodland, with few studies on negative impacts, such as lower land values, reduced agricultural land area, and altered biodiversity [22,25,28]. Reviewing his re-wilded vision of the British uplands, Tokarski and Gammon claim that George Monbiot 'provides an entry point into a conflict between environmentalism and heritage that is not being debated adequately' [29] (p. 152). This debate might take different forms, depending on which UK nation (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales) is involved.…”

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Woodland Expansion in Upland National Parks: An Analysis of Stakeholder Views and Understanding in the Dartmoor National Park, UK

FitzGerald

Collins

Potter

2021

Land

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Woodland expansion on a significant scale is widely seen to be critical if governments are to achieve their net zero greenhouse gas ambitions. The United Kingdom government is committed to expanding tree cover from 13% to at least 17% in order to achieve net zero by 2050. With much lowland area under agricultural production, woodland expansion may be directed to upland areas, many of which are national parks under some degree of conservation jurisdiction. This may prove to be controversial, requiring full engagement with the interests of those individuals with a stake in their protection and management. In this paper, we explore how a range of stakeholders view the prospect of woodland expansion in Dartmoor National Park in southwest England, UK. Fifteen stakeholders—a mix of key informants and farmers—were shown different woodland expansion scenarios in map form and consulted using semi-structured interviews. The findings suggest widespread enthusiasm for woodland expansion, but with significant differences in terms of the scale and approach. Stakeholders raised topics of biodiversity gain, climate change mitigation, environmental benefits, cultural ecosystem gain, and forest crop benefits. Caution was expressed regarding target setting, the place of woodland expansion in the national debate, and the potential for harm from inappropriate new planting. The constraints identified were land tenure patterns, notably tenancy insecurity and ‘common land’ challenges, historical farming policy and culture, landscape objectives, and future policy design.

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Woodland Expansion in Upland National Parks: An Analysis of Stakeholder Views and Understanding in the Dartmoor National Park, UK

FitzGerald

Collins

Potter

2021

Land

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“…To him, the old cultural landscape is like a meaningful text one can inhabit, and rewilding is destroying its legibility. All features in the landscape tell a story about the land and the community who has live on it (Tokarski & Gammon 2016) and as such provides a context from which his own life gains a specific meaning.…”

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Rewilding in Layered Landscapes as a Challenge to Place Identity

Drenthen¹

2018

Environmental Values

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Rewilding is an increasingly popular strategy in landscape management, yet it is also controversial, especially when applied in culturally 'layered' landscapes. In this paper I examine what is morally at stake in debates between proponents of rewilding and those that see traditional cultural landscapes as worthy of protection. I will argue that rewilding should not only be understood as a conservation practice, but that we also need to understand the hermeneutic aspect of rewilding. Rewilding implies a radical non-anthropocentric normative reinterpretation of landscape and human history that calls for a critical re-examination of the cultural identities that are based on that history.

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Large, rugged and remote: The challenge of wolf–livestock coexistence on federal lands in the American West

Anderson,

Charnley,

Martin

et al. 2024

People and Nature

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The expansion of grey wolves (Canis lupus) across the western United States, including on public lands used for extensive livestock grazing, requires tools and techniques for reducing wolf–livestock conflict and supporting coexistence. We examined approaches used on forested lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service, which we characterize as large, rugged and remote (LRR) landscapes. Research on the spatial aspects of where tools and techniques are deployed and their effectiveness across geographic settings is scant. We selected six national forests located in six western states where managers seek to mitigate ongoing wolf–livestock conflict and conducted semistructured qualitative interviews with stakeholders (n = 69) to discuss approaches to conflict mitigation and perceptions of the effectiveness of different tools and techniques. We developed a three‐part typology categorizing tools and techniques for conflict reduction: livestock husbandry, non‐lethal deterrents and targeted lethal removal of wolves. Across these categories, interviewees noted that many approaches are challenging to scale up to the geographic context of Forest Service grazing allotments and LRR landscapes. The techniques perceived by our informants to be most effective for mitigating conflict in LRR landscapes include: human presence (mobile range riders); flexibility in grazing management; husbandry practices to minimize livestock vulnerability; and targeted lethal removal of wolves (used in combination with non‐lethal techniques). Social, economic and political factors also influence the ability of producers to implement desired conflict mitigation tools in the national forest context. For example, the economic costs of implementation in LRR landscapes, and policies associated with grazing on federal lands, can limit mitigation options. Policy implications. Geography matters! Efforts to address wolf–livestock conflict are more likely to be effective if they are designed to fit the local geographic context. Effectiveness may also increase if mitigation efforts go beyond technical approaches, considering the social, economic and institutional context in which conflict is embedded. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Cultivating a Dialogue: Rewilding, Heritage Landscapes, and Belonging

Cited by 9 publications

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Woodland Expansion in Upland National Parks: An Analysis of Stakeholder Views and Understanding in the Dartmoor National Park, UK

Woodland Expansion in Upland National Parks: An Analysis of Stakeholder Views and Understanding in the Dartmoor National Park, UK

Rewilding in Layered Landscapes as a Challenge to Place Identity

Large, rugged and remote: The challenge of wolf–livestock coexistence on federal lands in the American West

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