Dr. Florence Renou-Wilson:

The cutover, which is what the Deputy would be familiar with cutting, is where the bog is being cut at its edges. The degraded raised bog is in the middle. Ecologists now know that cutting the edges of the bog is impacting its centre. The bog is not raised anymore, incidentally. It has lost its dome because it has been drained for so many years. It is now just flat as a pancake. It should be a raised bog. We call the whole area a cutover. Within a site, there would be a cutover area that may or may not still be cut and in the middle there is the degraded raised bog. In some instances, it is still there and not cut. It is degraded because it has been drained.