Diversity returns to Lakeland stream after restoration puts its bends back

Nature 'in charge again' at Swindale Beck for first time in 200 years as award-winning conservation project bears fruitAfter months of hard work extracting spoil using diggers to reshape and create new channels and restore a Lakeland stream to its natural state, the rewards for Lee Schofield were almost instant."It was like flicking a switch, the natural process switch. As soon as the water started flowing through the winding channel, nature was back in charge again, and all of that diversity came back, almost as if by magic," said Schofield. Continue reading...