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We campaigned over many years to protect more of the Dales by increasing the size of the Yorkshire Dales and Lake District National Parks. As a result in 2016 the Yorkshire Dales National Park became 25% bigger!
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In 2008 we campaigned in partnership with the Yorkshire Dales Green Lanes Alliance to ban motorised vehicles from nine vulnerable tracks.
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We actively supported the saving of the Settle-Carlisle railway line.