'The implications of Vera’s wood pasture hypothesis for management of woodland and associated habitats in the High Weald AONB’ 

Tuesday 24 September 2002

The Weald has so often been portrayed as archetypal impenetrable forest despite increasing evidence to the contrary. Vera’s hypothesis argues that wild herbivores were sufficiently numerous to maintain a shifting mosaic at a landscape scale of open grassland, scrub, open grown trees and groves.

Read a summary of Vera’s hypothesis on line: http://www.cabi-publishing.org/Bookshop/Readingroom/0851994423.asp

The seminar seeks to explore the implications of Vera’s theory for the future management of the High Weald.

Speakers include: Tony Whitbread, Patrick Roper, Simon Pryor and George Peterken.

Further details from Yvonne Riedel, High Weald AONB, Corner Farm, Hastings Road, Flimwell, East Sussex TN5 7PR