Dartmoor, England: Preserving an Ancient Man-Made Wilderness
By Jenny Coates Dartmoor is famous as an area of outstanding natural beauty, but in fact, most of it is man-made. Sitting on the top of Hound Tor, an ungainly stack of boulders looking out over the bracken-covered slopes, it’s hard to believe. But the landscape is not all prehistoric plate tectonics and wild ferns….