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A group of four young naturalists, Ann Templeton, John Castle, Jennifer Millard and Evelyn Houser, were observed by David Chamberlain of the Field Observers’ Group, the Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire, at the Cothill Fen nature reserve near Abingdon, England on May 21, 1962. The reserve, leased by the society to the National Trust and by them to the Nature Conservancy, is the only reserve to reproduce fen conditions for 50 miles around, ranging from dry land to peat bog and pools of water. The observers are engaged in a full survey of the reserve, which is expected to take about five years and include all the insects, flora and fauna to be found there, including a population of waterfowl that increases every year.A group of four young naturalists, Ann Templeton, John Castle, Jennifer Millard and Evelyn Houser, were observed by David Chamberlain of the Field Observers’ Group, the Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire, at the Cothill Fen nature reserve near Abingdon, England on May 21, 1962. The reserve, leased by the society to the National Trust and by them to the Nature Conservancy, is the only reserve to reproduce fen conditions for 50 miles around, ranging from dry land to peat bog and pools of water. The observers are engaged in a full survey of the reserve, which is expected to take about five years and include all the insects, flora and fauna to be found there, including a population of waterfowl that increases every year.
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DATED 1962 File: NATURE Resenes 21 MAY 1962 REWIND’ OM 12/1/10 YOUNG NATURE OBSERVERS AT COTHILL 10000 mu DAVID Chamberlain, of the Field Observers’ Group, the Ashmolean Natural His- tory Society of Oxfordshire, fenland at mapping open Cothill, near Abingdon, for Conservancy, Nature the watched by (left to right) Ann Templeton, John Castle, Jennifer Millard and Evelyn Houser. Wet or fine, a group of keen young naturalists spend part of every Sunday working at the Cothill Fen nature re- serve. “We go out in all weathers,” bas a Maty says Mr. Chamberlain, of St. Catherine’s Society, who is “We’ve had snow.” everything even Yesterday they started map- ping the reserve, which will take them another five or six weeks. They are also it pegging out into rectangles-100ft. by 50ft.- so that changes in vegeta- tion can be checked later against that recorded on the map. The special interest of this small reserve, leased by the society to the National Trust and by them to the Nature Conservancy, is that it reproduces fen conditions -the only reserve to do so for 50 miles around. These conditions range from dry land to peat bog and pools of water. The observers are engaged on a full survey of the reserve, which is expected to take about five years and include all the insects, flora and fauna to be found there. Among fauna found, if not recorded, are poachers and boys with guns. “We do our best to scare them off,” said Miss Templeton. Ho
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