Lee Schofield is the author of Wild Fell: Fighting for Nature on a Lake District Hill Farm, his account of a decade working for the RSPB at Wild Haweswater in the Lake District National Park, where he oversaw pioneering conservation work across an upland mosaic of woodland, bog, mountain and meadow. Wild Fell details the personal and professional challenges involved in working at the coal-face of nature conservation in the uplands.
He is now working on one of the largest Landscape Recovery Projects in England, aiming to create a 150km2 corridor of wildlife-rich land extending from Penrith to Kendal. The farm he manages and lives on, a stone’s throw from Haweswater, sits in this landscape’s wild heart. As a musician, Lee’s album of folkish songs weave his love of nature into plaintive, textured melodies.