Sheep numbers in sharp decline as farmers increasingly shift to forestry, fuelled by demand to earn carbon credits
Across one of the ridgelines of High Peak station, a line of sheep is on the move: gradual at first, and then in a heaving rush, an avalanche of dirty white wool heading into the valley. They flow around Hamish Guild like an eddy.
He looks across the valley, to where a slope of grassland splits in half, a velvety black expanse of pine forest sweeping over the hill.
