An area of managed moorland for the shooting of red grouse.
松鸡猎场
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The Moorland Visitor's Code highlights that dogs are not allowed on most access land on grouse moors to protect rare moorland birds.
Most of Ilkley Moor is owned by Bradford Council and it is managed as a traditional grouse moor except that shooting is not allowed.
In Scottish winters, while the rest of the country yearns for sun, the keepers on grouse moors pray for a deep, deep frost.
Born at Cheetham, Manchester, into a poor Jewish family, Benny was a jobless 20-year-old when he organised the trespass on the grouse moors of Kinder in 1932.
The billionaire owns the 32,000-acre Gunnerside estate in Swaledale, which has some of the finest grouse moors in the country, but his lifelong passion is sailing.
If hen harrier numbers were managed on grouse moors, such as by removing eggs from some nests, it might allow more harriers to be conserved than if the grouse-shooting was abandoned.
This means grouse moors will now be able to generate the income so vital for continued investment in moor management and the wider rural economy.
This season the owners of Scotland's 490 grouse moors have either cancelled their shoots or scaled them back dramatically because of a desperate shortage of birds.
The forecast across Scotland's 450 grouse moors is more complicated, with some areas in dire straits while others are faring better.
There are still lots of grouse moors close to East Lancashire around the Yorkshire Dales and the Trough of Bowland.
You've got everything from grouse moors to limestone grassland and a fantastic coastline.
The trust claims that allowing harriers to flourish unhindered could lead to the closure of grouse moors - the economic lifeblood of some of Scotland's sporting estates - and the loss of millions of pounds of income in rural areas.
My understanding of the management of grouse moors is that land-owners burn heather on a rotation basis to encourage new growth which will actually help peat ground retain water.
Nature trails lead through the woodlands up to a heather-clad hill top which the Fielden family used as a grouse moor.
I go stalking, and have tramped across more than enough grouse moors to wear out a pair of walking boots.
This natural regeneration would benefit species such as the black grouse, which roost in trees and has declined on grouse moors.
And in North Yorkshire, firefighters battled on two fronts to stop fire spreading out of control across grouse moors in Upper Swaledale.
In 1932 there was a mass trespass involving 400 people on the grouse moors at Kinder Scout in Derbyshire, during which gamekeepers clashed with walkers demanding the right to walk on the estate.
Small wonder Stanford thought August days on Scotland's grouse moors were never - to-be-forgotten moments.
Minutes later, we are looking out over the River Cover and drinking Kir Royale from plastic flutes, preparing ourselves for the hike to the grouse moor.