About the reserve

An upland fringe sheep farm, Creg-y-Cowin will become the Island’s largest  native temperate rainforest. This would have been the dominant landcover for the Manx uplands for thousands of years before Neolithic farming gradually cleared our native forests to make way for open fields.

Management: Tree planting from 2023 until 2028 will be the main initial management, however within ten years of the last tree being planted we will reintroduce sheep and then cattle to make a woodland pasture.