Dartmoor Training Area
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Integrated Land Management Plan (ILMP)
Environmental
Management
System
(EMS)
Management
Training on Dartmoor Training Area is carefully controlled, supervised and managed. Military use of Dartmoor is guided by a statutory responsibility to have regard for the National Park’s purposes of conservation and public access.
Soldiers are taught to be considerate of others with whom they share Dartmoor. They are also encouraged to understand and care for Dartmoor’s landscape, and its historic and natural environment. Working with nature can help Servicemen and Servicewomen to live, fight and survive.
Advice on the best way to achieve training objectives is given by Commandant Dartmoor Training Area, his deputy the Regimental Sergeant Major Instructor and the Training Area Supervisors. This includes briefings, which reinforces standing orders for the safe and sustainable conduct of training. It also covers temporary restrictions to allow areas to recover after intensive use, to avoid sensitive breeding areas and to re-locate intensive training activities away from areas attracting large numbers of the public.
During the training package, Conducting Officers control activities, ensure that the safe system of training is in place and help participants to draw out the lessons learned from the training experience.
At the end of training or during breaks in the exercise, the troops go back over the ground to pick up empty cases and to make sure that no debris or litter has been left behind.
Training Area Supervisors and wardens ensure that visiting units clean up, care for the environment and protect Dartmoor’s rugged beauty.
An environmental management system (ISO 14001) is used to assess the impacts of military activities.
A plan describing how the military manages its responsibilities on Dartmoor is being prepared.
