The Yorkshire Dales: A 60th Anniversary Celebration of the National Park - Hardcover

Speakman, Colin

9780992819309: The Yorkshire Dales: A 60th Anniversary Celebration of the National Park

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 099281930X ISBN 13: 9780992819309

Publisher: Great Northern Books Ltd, 2014

This remarkable book is a unique celebration of some of the world's most glorious landscape and its people. It looks at how the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority has protected a unique environment over the last 60 years from shaky beginnings in 1954 through to its many present-day achievements. Future challenges are not neglected. The highly informative text breaks much new ground, as instanced in several chapters taking a detailed look at 'green' issues. These include the need for long-distance walking and cycling routes, now enormously popular and coming to the fore in 2014 with Le Grand Depart. National Park Authority success stories such as the saving of traditional hay meadows receive special attention. The farming theme is taken up in a fascinating chapter by 'guest author' Anthony Bradley, a working farmer, who looks constructively at the issue of maximising food production while at the same time meeting visitor and conservation needs. The many photographs capture the glorious variety and ever-changing light of the Dales landscape and include some wonderful archive images from the 1950s.

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