{"id":177,"date":"2009-11-04T00:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T00:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2009\/11\/04\/changes-at-barton-fields-revisited\/"},"modified":"2009-11-04T00:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T00:14:00","slug":"changes-at-barton-fields-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"Changes at Barton Fields &#8211; Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having done yesterdays post on the basis of a dog walk I got some more expert information from the people who live and breathe Barton Fields and so am rewriting it in their words, but will leave the old one in place &#8211; so 2 days with the same pictures and different words &#8230;<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09110201.jpg\" \/><br \/>The Longmead Lake area and its surrounding reedbeds and ponds has been sold to a private individual who it is understood will be using the lake for angling.  The lake and surrounding area were restored under the regulation of the County Ecologist and includes a number of ponds and reedbeds.  This area is a haven for wildlife including Water Voles, which have declined drastically in the UK in recent years.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09110203.jpg\" \/><br \/>The tree under threat of felling is one of only 2000 to 3000 <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080705131551\/http:\/\/www.wildlifebcnp.org\/old\/northants-bap\/Black%20Poplar.htm\">Native Black Poplars<\/a> left in the UK and are UK Biodiversity Action Plan species. Members of Abingdon Naturalists Society will do their utmost to preserve this tree, which has a preservation order on it.  Old and rotting trees are havens for all sorts of wildlife including rare and endangered invertebrates.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag09\/09110204.jpg\" \/><br \/>The closely mown wildflower meadow in Barton Fields has recently been sown with a wildflower seed mixture and nearly 500 plants of species appropriate to a floodplain meadow.  This is part of a Breathing Places project (Lottery funded).<\/p>\n<p>With the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change in five weeks time there is the chance to influence it and maybe save some trees by sending a <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20181126210242\/https:\/\/rainforestsos.org\/\">Rainforest SOS<\/a> message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having done yesterdays post on the basis of a dog walk I got some more expert information from the people who live and breathe Barton Fields and so am rewriting it in their words, but will leave the old one in place &#8211; so 2 days with the same pictures and different words &#8230;The Longmead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}