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(Redirected from Lee Schofield (conservationist)) British conservationist and writer

Lee Schofield
BornScotland
EducationImperial College London (MSc)
Occupation(s)conservationist, writer
Notable workWild Fell: Fighting for Nature on a Lake District Hill Farm
AwardsRichard Jefferies Award
Websiteleeschofield.co.uk

Lee Schofield is a British naturalist and nature writer. He wrote Wild Fell: Fighting for Nature on a Lake District Hill Farm, which describes his work as site manager for the RSPB at Haweswater in the Lake District National Park.

Early life and education

Schofield was born in Scotland but spent his childhood in Devon. He studied Zoology at University, followed by an MSc in Ecological Management at Imperial College, London. For his MSc dissertation and for a subsequent academic publication, he investigated social attitudes to large mammal reintroductions in the Scottish Highlands, a subject he would later return to in his writing.

Work

Schofield began working as site manager for the RSPB at Haweswater shortly after the charity took over the tenancies of Naddle and Swindale Farms in 2012. The work he oversees is based on a partnership with United Utilities, who own the Haweswater Reservoir and the 10,000 hectares of catchment land around it. The part of the catchment that falls under the RSPB and United Utilities partnership is managed for the benefit of water, wildlife and people. Major programmes of woodland, bog, hay meadow and river restoration have been delivered and a sustainable grazing regime with native breed cattle and ponies and a small number of sheep has replaced the previous more intensive sheep-grazing model, resulting in increases in a wide range of species, including Atlantic salmon, tree pipit, red grouse, marsh fritillary butterfly, water vole and many specialist upland plants. Haweswater is increasingly recognised as one of the UK's most ambitious and pioneering nature recovery projects and has received multiple awards and accolades.    

Schofield's first book, Wild Fell: Fighting for Nature on a Lake District Hill Farm, was published in February 2022. Reviewing it for The Guardian, Amy-Jane Beer described Schofield as "a delightfully companionable guide". It details his work at Haweswater, charting both the ecological changes that he has helped to bring about, as well as the personal challenges involved. Wild Fell won the Richard Jefferies Award in 2022, and was Highly Commended in the James Cropper Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation in the same year.

Schofield regularly gives talks and interviews about his work, and has contributed to several anthologies, co-authored academic papers, and written for magazines, including British Wildlife, Inkcap Journal, Cumbria Life and BBC Wildlife.

Selected publications

Books

Chapters

References

  1. "PEW Literary | Author | Lee Schofield". www.pewliterary.com. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  2. ^ Beer, Amy-Jane (10 March 2022). "Wild Fell by Lee Schofield review – can the Lake District be rewilded?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
  3. ^ Schofield, Lee (2022). Wild Fell: Fighting for Nature on a Lake District Hill Farm (1st ed.). Doubleday. ISBN 9780857527752.
  4. ^ "Meet the rewilders: Haweswater". Rewilding Britain. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  5. ^ Schofield, Lee (September 2005). Public Attitude Toward Mammal Reintroductions: A Highland Case Study (PDF) (MSc thesis). Imperial College, London.
  6. ^ Nilsen, Erlend B; Milner-Gulland, E.J; Schofield, Lee; Mysterud, Atle; Stenseth, Nils Chr; Coulson, Tim (7 April 2007). "Wolf reintroduction to Scotland: public attitudes and consequences for red deer management". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 274 (1612): 995–1003. doi:10.1098/rspb.2006.0369. ISSN 0962-8452. PMC 2141678. PMID 17264063.
  7. Schofield, Lee (2023). "The Three-Legged Stool: Wolves, Shepherds and Sheep". In Convery, Ian; Davis, Peter; Lloyd, Karen; Nevin, Owen T; van Maanen, Erwin (eds.). The Wolf: Culture, Nature, Heritage. Boydell and Brewer. pp. 363–370. ISBN 9781837650156.
  8. ^ Martynoga, Ben (10 March 2023). "'The R-word can be alienating': How Haweswater rewilding project aims to benefit all". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  9. freshwaterblog (9 March 2022). "Restoring Wild Haweswater: an interview with Lee Schofield". The Freshwater Blog. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  10. "RSPB and United Utilities sign up to shared vision in the North West". www.unitedutilities.com. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  11. "The Shining River - RSPB England - Our work - The RSPB Community". community.rspb.org.uk. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
  12. Laville, Sandra (26 December 2022). "Diversity returns to Lakeland stream after restoration puts its bends back". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
  13. Correspondent, Tom Ball, Northern (15 October 2023). "Salmon breed again in 'rewiggled' Cumbrian river". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 15 October 2023. {{cite news}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  14. wildhaweswater (28 November 2019). "Woodland: A Nature-Based Solution to Climate Change". Wild Haweswater. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  15. Barkham, Patrick (26 June 2023). "Endangered marsh fritillary butterfly makes a comeback in Lake District". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  16. "Water voles brought back to the Lake District". BBC News. 17 August 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  17. "2022 UK River Prize | The RRC". www.therrc.co.uk. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
  18. "Conservation Awards and Wild Trout Hero Award 2017". Wild Trout Trust. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
  19. wildhaweswater (5 December 2022). "Cumbrian rivers project scoops prestigious European Riverprize". Wild Haweswater. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  20. Collcutt, Deborah (1 March 2022). "The abuse hurt but Lee didn't give up on his Lakes dream". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  21. "Wild Fell Wins Top Literary Prize for Nature Writing". Richard Jefferies Society. Archived from the original on 3 August 2023. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  22. "The James Cropper Wainwright Prize Winners 2022". Wainwright Prize. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
  23. Bourke, India (2 March 2022). "Lee Schofield on how farming needs to re-wiggle its approach to nature". New Statesman. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  24. Schofield, Lee (2022). "The Northern Hay Meadow". In Lloyd, Karen (ed.). North Country: An anthology of landscape and nature. Saraband. pp. 252–261. ISBN 9781913393403.
  25. Schofield, Lee (2022). "Tree Pipit". In Jewitt, Kit; Toms, Mike (eds.). Into the Red. British Trust for Ornithology. p. 136. ISBN 9781912642380.
  26. Monger, Felicity; V Spracklen, Dominick; J Kirkby, Mike; Schofield, Lee (January 2022). "The impact of semi‐natural broadleaf woodland and pasture on soil properties and flood discharge". Hydrological Processes. 36 (1). Bibcode:2022HyPr...36E4453M. doi:10.1002/hyp.14453. ISSN 0885-6087. S2CID 245186634.
  27. Ewing, S. R.; Menéndez, R.; Schofield, L.; Bradbury, R. B. (1 June 2020). "Vegetation composition and structure are important predictors of oviposition site selection in an alpine butterfly, the Mountain Ringlet Erebia epiphron". Journal of Insect Conservation. 24 (3): 445–457. doi:10.1007/s10841-020-00229-z. ISSN 1572-9753. S2CID 212732602.
  28. "Balancing culture and nature in the Lake District". British Wildlife. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  29. Schofield, Lee (23 February 2022). "A Future For The Lakes". Inkcap Journal. Retrieved 14 October 2023.

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