Friends of the Museum of Somerset present “The Quantock Hills Through Time” with Nigel Phillips, a former Wildlife Trust nature reserve manager, award winning ecologist and author.
Nigel’s talk will explore the wildlife of the frozen Quantocks and then chart the losses and gains that bring us to now, and what lives in the Quantock Hills National Landscape today. This talk is based upon Nigel’s most recent book ‘The Nature Of The Quantocks’.
Nigel said: “It is often hard to imagine the time frames and impacts of long ago events. For example the Quantocks, and of course other close by places, were held in the icy grip of the last Ice Age for roughly 20,000 years. This was the Late Devensian Ice Age and it swept the hills clear of almost all life. But as the ice eventually faded north wildlife returned and has evolved and changed and adapted.”