Street signs in Oxhey have been restored. Credit: Watford Borough Council Several street signs named after historical figures in Watford have been repaired and restored. The restored Victorian plates in Oxhey Village reflect the history of Watford with mayor Peter Taylor keen to protect the town s heritage. Among the street signs restored, which the council says had fallen into poor condition are Capell Road, which has changed from Capel - named after the Earls of Essex and William Capell, the original owner of Cassiobury House. Another is Grover Road. The Grover family owned the land on which this road was built in the 1880s and at that date they were wine merchants in the town.
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Among the first plants to reestablish in burned areas are Redshank, Silvergreen, and Cord Moss, also known as the “fire mosses.” Researchers at Northern Arizona University studied burn scars on the Colorado Plateau to see how quickly these special, plushy pads of green cover the landscape after a wildfire. They found fire mosses favor north-facing slopes and cool conifer forests. Moss-covered sites had double the resistance to erosion and almost twice as much capacity to soak up rain compared to places where moss didn’t grow.
Could ecologists harness the power of moss to restore a burned site? Ecologist Henry Grover says that’s a question his research team would like to answer. He’s experimented with seeding mosses on a fire scar on Kendrick Peak north of Flagstaff. At first, ants carried the moss away before it could spread. So he turned to an ancient reseeding technique: coating a bit of moss in clay to make a pellet that dissolves in the rain.