Emmanuel’s Common One Year On
This is a set of before-and-after images from a river recreation project at Emmanuel’s Common on the River Nar. This is a brand-new river channel cut…
Why Dredging Makes Flooding Worse
Piers Morgan tells Liz Truss MP that she needs a ‘department for the unprecedented’, while all the government – or the opposition – can talk about…
Top Ten River Books
An interesting page in The Guardian today: Katherine Norbury, who has just published The Fish Ladder, has compiled her top ten books about rivers. I have to agree…
River “Restoration”?
This is a slightly shortened version of a talk I gave last week at the WWF chalk-stream conference: I was asked to address what river restoration should mean…
Chalk-Stream Index 2014
I recently compiled my best attempt at a complete index of all the English chalk-streams, partly to satisfy my own cataloguing obsession, partly because it was…
Restoration Drama Continued
The second in my mini-series on our (Norfolk Rivers Trust) 2014 river restoration projects begins in the headwaters of the River Nar. You have to go…
Restoration Drama
The first in a series of blogs for river restorationists. The reason why nothing has appeared on here for the past four months: I’ve been a…
We’ve Got Wood
Monday morning 4th August and the next phase in the restoration of a small Norfolk chalk-stream begins. 3.5 km in two months, all being well. Last year we (the…
Our New Eden
Books, it seems, can change the world … or at least help shape it. The River Wye – a chalk-stream in Buckinghamshire – was buried…
To Tame or Conquer the Flood?
At the request of Peter Devery via Twitter I have posted below the reply I wrote to a daft letter about flooding published in The Times…
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