The Library provides a reference page of articles, publications and web links relating to Wild Ennerdale, land management and wildness.

The library is a place of research, a tool for those wanting to find out more about wild issues and discover some of the articles that inspire and have been produced by the Wild Ennerdale partnership.

See also our Monitoring and Archeology pages for other documents and Google.

General

• Natural England Future Landscapes - A draft policy for consultation (2009)
• Defra Landuse Project Demonstrator Case Studies 2008-09 (Ennerdale p13-24)
• Environmental Impacts of Land management 2007(Ennerdale chapter 14)
• British Wildlife - Naturalistic Grazing and Rewilding in Britain 2009(Ennerdale p37 & p56)

Press and Media

• Wilderness reclaims the Ennerdale Valley (Guardian Photo Gallery by Joe Cornish Nov 2010)
• UK Landscape Award 2010 - Wild Ennerdale Commended
• BBC Countryfile comes to Ennerdale (April 2010)
• 20 Wild Places to stay in the Uk (August 2008)
• Wilder Parks can tame climate change threat (Dec 2007)
• Imagine a Britain Running Wild (Observer Aug 2007)
• Recall of the Wild (May 2007)
• Get back To Nature - Wild Ennerdale (Guardian Nov 2006)
• Wild Ennerdale Country (Farmers Guardian Aug 2006)
• The Wolf at Your Door (August 2005)
• The blessings of storm damage (Guardian Jan 2005)

Wildland

• Wildland Research Institute setting the agenda 2010
• A review of the benefits and opportunities attributed to Scotland’s landscapes of wild character (2006 ROAME No. F04NC18)
• BANC Towards a Wildland Strategy (Dec 2004)

Ecology

• Making Space for Nature 2010 Defra Report (Ennerdale mention p64)
• Bryophyte Survey of Side Wood 2001
• Bryophyte Survey of the Side Heaths 2001
• Population trends of Arctic Charr 2010

History

• Records of a visit in 1970 including discussion about creating Moss Dub.
• A brochure about the Anglers Inn that used to stand on the shore of Ennerdale Water.
• Ennerdale Historic Landscape Survey 11/2003 report and drawings
• Early Forest records giving an insight into the planting of the forest
• Barnards cairn - reports of the finding of Mr Barnards body
• Memories of Ennerdale By Tom Williamson of Routen. Smithy Beck Shielings, A Village School, Blacksail after dark, Memories of Spot

Water

• Ennerdale Water Sonar Images September 2004 illustrating different levels of freshwater activity between daytime and night time. With thanks to the Environment Agency.
• River rehabilitation and large woody debris 2010 (Ennerdale p16 &17)

Geology

• A poster about the moraines at the east end of the valley with the permission of the author David J. Graham

Wild Ennerdale Partnership

• Animals, Man and Treescapes Conference 2011, paper and presentation
• Wild Ennerdale - Developing Ideas - stake holders presentation 04/2003
• Edinburgh IURFO Conference October 2012 or follow the video link under under Presentations title and find Thursday Session 1, bottom of video page, at 37minutes in to see and hear the presentation on video.