Conservation Officials To Revert Land Near Stonehenge To Natural State
The U.K. National Trust is turning back the clock on additional vast swaths of land surrounding the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge. The conservation and heritage charity, which has managed the ancient site on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, for nearly a century, will work to return the newly-acquired acreage to the way it existed prior to modern agricultural practices. “We have been working for years to revert more of the Stonehenge world heritage site to chalk grassland which, as well as protecting the archaeology, will allow nature to thrive,” Rebecca Burton, regional director at the National Trust, told the Guardian....