My photos here show our beautiful world. I hope to encourage viewers to help save it from human carelessness. Today, I bring you a shot of the Yorkshire Dales, a National Park in England. This is a region where agriculture must follow certain rules to ensure the natural world is left as pristine as possible in a working landscape. Compromise achieves this most of the time, but there are always odd instances where business and the pursuit of profit overstep concern for the environment.
Here, a few small animal pens, possibly for poultry of some sort, have been left unused at the edge of the foreground field. At least they’re close to the fence rather than in the middle of the grassed area. But wildflowers are absent from the plot. Overhead, a couple of power lines divide the sky. The area is geologically difficult for the burial of power lines, so most are strung on wooden poles. The drystone walls that divide fields and keep stock from straying are often centuries old and constructed from loose stones collected over time from the ground after the last ice age.
Many of the boundary walls and ditches bear native trees, which are allowed to flourish, sometimes forming small copses or strings of woodland. The place was once carpeted with native woodland, but farming has reduced tree cover substantially over the centuries. Most farms produce sheep and sometimes cattle. The area is known for its cheeses and meat. It’s a relatively sparsely populated region, and contains some of the most rewarding walking country in Europe. Let’s hope it maintains its protected status for the foreseeable future.

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