Fen Management Handbook - Scottish Natural Heritage

Acknowledgements
Production of the Fen Management Handbook has been co-ordinated by an
editorial steering group comprising (in alphabetical order) Iain Diack, Senior
Wetland Specialist at Natural England (NE); Nick Droy, Wetlands Adviser for
Royal Society for Protection of Birds (RSPB); Bobbie Hamill, Northern Ireland
Environment Agency (NIEA); Pete Jones, Peatland Ecologist for the Countryside
Council for Wales (CCW); Hans Schutten, Senior Wetlands Adviser for Scottish
Environment Protection Agency (SEPA); Ann Skinner, National Conservation Policy
Adviser for the Environment Agency (EA) and Margaret Street, Wetland Specialist
for NE. Andrew McBride, Wetland Ecologist for Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH)
chaired the steering group. Vyv Wood-Gee, freelance Countryside Management
Consultant, was contracted to edit the draft text.
The Editorial Group and Vyv Wood-Gee have produced the text from that provided
by the following lead authors who we gratefully acknowledge for their contribution;
Roger Meade, Rob Low, Alistair Headley, Richard Robinson and Sarah Ross.
The Editorial Board would also like to acknowledge the help given in Peer review by
Dr Sue Shaw, Dr Brian Wheeler, Andrew Panter, Nick Haycock, Craig MacAdam,
Alistair Headley and Alan Stubbs. Special thanks to Andrea Kelly and her team
at the Broads Authority (particularly Sue Stephenson) for their comments and
guidance on the handbook.
In addition, we would like to acknowledge the contribution
from the following people;
Becky Barrett, Matt Fasham, Max Wade, Rob Pitcher, Robin Ward, Roger Buisson,
Simon Jones, Edwin Lomas, Sam Bosanquet, Gerard Hawley, Matt Sutton, Jacky
Carrol, Andrew Excell and Jim Jeffrey.
Sections 6, 7 and 9 Fen Vegetation, Water Management and Fen Creation – the
assistance of Sandie Tolhurst and the Broads Authority in making the text of their
publications freely available is gratefully acknowledged. Thanks are also due to
Simon Weymouth of the Forestry Commission (FC) who has provided text from the
New Forest Management guidelines, and Rick Southwood of Natural England for
the benefit of his experience in managing Woodbastwick National Nature Reserve,
and Tim Coleshaw of Natural England for the Wybunbury Moss case study.
Section 11 Fens and People – Sarah Eno, Chris Soans, Tim Strudwick, Andrea
Kelly, Matt Bradbury, George Taylor, John Blackburn, Steve Hughes, Tom Hill, Mike
Page, Jane Stevens, Helen Smith and Stuart Warrington very generously provided
information or images and commented on drafts of this section.
Diagrams were drawn by Craig Ellery of Ellery Design, Edinburgh.
Design and typeset by River Design, Edinburgh
Citation
For bibliographic purposes this book should be referred to as The Fen Management
Handbook, (2011), Editors A. McBride, I. Diack, N Droy, B. Hamill, P.Jones, J. Schutten,
A. Skinner, and M. Street. Scottish Natural Heritage, Perth.