Margaret Uttley 

'Peat preserves the past'.      'Recreational footpaths'.         'Water Tumbles Beneath the Trinnacle'.                'Cotton Grass of Blea'
These are just four of 10 charcoal & graphite on paper scrolls, that state the relevance of Peat Moorlands.
Worked from 2014 -2018. They measure 57cm x 138cm except for the 'Trinnacle' which is 114cm x 150cm
                                              private collection                                                                                                   private collection
Water is crucial to life. A healthy upper peat moorland soaks up the rainfall like a sponge, to retain and gradually filter the water through to the underground water tables, or Victorian reservoirs via naturally flowing river beds and streams, as shown in the 'Trinnacle'.
The growth of Cotton grass and sphagnum moss are healthy to the moorlands. Sphagnum moss can store up to 5 times its weight in water.
'Recreational Footpaths' has the Simon Armitage poem 'Puddle' from the Stanza stones, carved into it, which is about rainfall.
'Peat preserves the Past' has the Lindow Moss Man, bog body in the bottom. Trapped at levels with in a metre of peat lay archaeological finds from Saddleworth Moor, Oldham. Peat grows at a rate of 0.5mm -1mm per year, therefore this meter of peat indicates 1000 years in it's making. 
The peat moorlands are hugely beneficial to the existence of life not only for water collection but acting as carbon sinks, to clarify the air that we breath. Peat moorlands are equivalent to the rainforests and I believe, must be conserved.