"bracken" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is usually used as a noun to refer to a type of fern that grows in woodlands or as a verb meaning "to disperse or break up." Example sentence: "The sun was peeking through the dense bracken of the forest."
Three-quarters of the world's heather moorland is found in Britain; the heather flowers purple in August, the bracken shines bronze in the autumn and the moors are dusted white with snow in midwinter.
The loss of traditional grazing in many areas has seen these flowers shaded out by scrub – clearing this, and controlling bracken growth, is required for both the violets and the butterfly.
Celandines, too, plants that can grow and die back before the thick shade of bracken covers the earth.
The moors, covered with bracken turning a rusty brown, stretched as far as the eye could see.
Shiny leaves of lords and ladies grew among dead bracken stems.
The Forest of Bowland, a striking landscape of boggy, open upland carpeted with heather and bracken, is home to some of the last breeding pairs of hen harriers in England.
There is a section that details the sensitive restoration of the building with "before" and "after" photos.Rachel Bracken-Singh, Ms Singh's daughter-in-law, was instrumental in creating the museum in 2002.
John Griffiths, the country's environment minister, told an Institute of Welsh Affairs conference earlier this month that farms have swathes of underused acid grassland and bracken-covered slopes.But the country's 45,000 farmers are unmoved.
Three trails connect a habitat mosaic: traditional hay meadows littered with anthills, bracken-covered slopes and birch-flanked river.
Each year Eddy, as he is known locally, sky dances, soaring and swooping over the bracken-brindled flanks of Lakeland's high fells, but he is now cut off from the rest of his kind.
The result is a "commitment to the preservation of craft techniques and traditional patterns", says Ms Bracken-Singh.But it has a modern approach too.
