Dr. Andy Bleasdale:

If the heather has become too leggy and is ungrazeable, then something other than grazing is needed in some cases to get the sheep back onto the hill, provided that is done in a sensitive way, a rotation is planned and it is not just a case of burning vast blocks of the hill without any management and the hill then moving from heather to green grass. It is about a mosaic of habitats that would support grouse and a suite of other upland species. If there is a plan to deliver that, we should not object to it.