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Graze the Moor Project Cattle on Molland Moor I have been working on Molland Moor, Exmoor , since the start of my time at the Heather Trust, in 2002. Since April 2014, I have been managing a project at Molland called Graze the Moor , which finishes at the end of March, next year. The project seeks to establish the impact on habitat from the re-introduction of an effective grazing regime, throughout the year using hill cattle and sheep.  A brief summary of the project can be downloaded . Winter grazing had ceased at start of the Environmentally Sensitive Area scheme in the late 1980s and many farmers use this to explain the habitat changes that have taken place across Exmoor.   Graze the Moor draws on 20 years of habitat data that have been collected on Molland Moor, and this has allowed the habitat changes to be mapped.  This five-year project follows a two-year case study that proved the concept, and this has allowed a continuous stream of habitat and livestock data t