- Venue
- Pen Trumau, Black Mountains
- Starts
- Tuesday, May 10, 2011
- Ends
- Saturday, May 14, 2011
- Address
- Please see blog for directions www.woollenline.wordpress.com
- Location
- Wales
It takes 1000 years for a metre of peat to form. On Pen Trumau 7 hectares to that depth have vanished since the mountain caught fire in 1976. The unhealed scar has lost 6,125 tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere along with equivalent carbon storage capacity. In 2010, 500 people took part in ‘Woollen line’, beginning repair of the eroded mountain by making a 300m long line in heather-seeded felted wool crossed with wool ‘sausages’ pegged into erosion channels. The wool is helping to stabilise the surface of the scar and allow vegetation to re-grow. At last year’s rate of progress it would take 234 years to repair the whole site! ‘Growing Woollen lines’ aims to double the repair efforts and heal the scar in less than 6 years. This year, with the help of Arts Alive I have managed to get funding for 600 metres of felt. With the help of volunteers I will also be making wool sausages by creating nets and stuffing them with washed wool. Using horses we will take all the wool onto the mountain on 10th,11th and 14th May and install the two new lines.
