The slow, muddy work of saving ancient bogs
"This is pretty deep here," she says, reading the markings on the probe. Peat is partially decomposed vegetation that builds up in waterlogged ground over centuries, storing more carbon than any other soil on Earth."It's important to keep that carbon locked away and not released to the atmosphere," Hickey says.Much of that carbon has stayed locked away, but not all of it. The island's uplands were largely stripped of trees by the 17th century, and with little timber left to burn, islanders turned to the hills for fuel instead.
- ▪"This is pretty deep here," she says, reading the markings on the probe.
- ▪Peat is partially decomposed vegetation that builds up in waterlogged ground over centuries, storing more carbon than any other soil on Earth."It's important to keep that carbon locked away and not released to the atmosphere," Hickey says.M
- ▪The island's uplands were largely stripped of trees by the 17th century, and with little timber left to burn, islanders turned to the hills for fuel instead.
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The slow, muddy work of saving ancient bogsImage caption, Sarah Hickey is part of a team which keeps nearly 20,000 acres of upland healthyByJosh CannIsle of ManPublishedJust nowHigh up on a Manx hillside, Sarah Hickey effortlessly pushes a metre-long metal rod into the wet ground until it disappears almost to her hands. "This is pretty deep here," she says, reading the markings on the probe. Beneath her boots is peat, built up over thousands of years and consisting of partially decayed plants and organic matter.Hickey is the island's Peatland Officer and part of an Uplands team of just three, who, between them, manage about 8,000 hectares of the Island's hills.Hickey's job is to find the parts of that landscape which have been damaged, and inject life into it.
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