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[edit] List of British butterflies
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[edit] Re: Antelope
Yes, your second guess was correct. You had edited the article properly, and then, after you, someone came along and vandalized the page (in this case, adding nonsense words), so I reverted the page to the last good version, which was yours. The message about popups just informs people that I'm using the popups javascript addon to Wikipedia to help revert, it just makes the process simpler, because I simply click on the last 'good' version, and click 'revert', and it does the work for me.
Its a pretty handy tool, if you find yourself doing a lot of editing, you might find it helpful. Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_popups. Peace. Phidauex 22:51, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wood Walton Fen
Thank you for your note. Your query is not easy to answer as it is so general and I have no special knowledge of the Wood Walton Fen. :-)
It is a remnant of relatively natural fen in one of the larger fen embayments. That is, it is part of one of the lobes of fen which extended into the upland. I have never been there but like the nearby Holme Fen, it is wooded. This implies that it is drained and dried out. Holme fen contains the famous Holme Post which indicates just how far the peat has shrunk since the 1850s. However, the map from which I took the woodland information is dated 1974. There has been time for new management to have had its effect. Wood Walton Fen is next to Turf Fen, a name which implies that the natural state of the ecology there was acidic. On the other hand, this picture gives an impression of fen in the strict sense but tending toward fen carr. This impression is reinforced by the insect life. There do seem to be birds and trees as well. Among the latter appears to be a fairly mature conifer, though there is nothing in the photo to say that it is not horizontal. When all is taken together the fen seems to have been managed as a fen with very open woodland, not all of which is coniferous.
This site lists it as being owned by the National Trust but the Trust's handbook does not list it. It would appear therefore to be let entirely into the custody of RSNC, the Royal Society for Nature Conservation. That site describes the habitat thus: reed bed, fen carr, birch and alder woodland and fen pasture. There is a rich flora in mown or grazed fen, ditches and peat cuttings, notable moths, dragonflies, beetles and spiders, Chinese Water Deer. Facilities are: Two hides. Access is to the permitted path, otherwise by permission. It extends to 208 hectares.
Its soil and that of its immediate vicinity is not surprisingly, fen peat (Altcar 2) but it lies in an embayment within the larger one. To its west is the island of Jurassic clay on which Wood Walton castle stood. To the east is the much larger peninsula of Jurassic clay and chalky till, on which Ramsey Abbey was built.
In the Roman Scheme of things, this appears to have been part of the boundary of the Imperial Estate which was not precisely marked by the Car Dyke and similar devices but where the great width of the fen was deemed sufficient to prevent smuggling.
Regards, (RJP)
[edit] Cetartiodactyla
Hi there! For your information: I now also commented User:Eli_Falk about his rash insertion of 'Cetartiodactyla' in all whale taxoboxes. --Fedor 10:05, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
