Local farmers say there are some early signs of recovery at the site of this summer's moorland fire.
But they say fully restoring both the natural landscape and the hundreds of miles of lost fencing is going to take years.
Mike Shardlow is one of the farmers who helped tackle the blaze, he says there were impressive efforts undertaken to protect key areas and live stock from the fire:
"There will have been one or two sheep, but not many. There was an island cut out by Dave Thompson down here, and there was about 20 sheep on there, and when all the smoke cleared, those 20 sheep was still on that little island of the grass on there survived it home. But the, they're more in, he's recovering very quickly now.
"If you walk across there and you can see little green shoots coming out of the grass, as we look down here, it's starting to green up already and a lot of it is done naturally."
Mark Shardlow is also helping out with the work:
"We're now going out towards Robin Hood Bay and starting pulling all these. Fire breaks where all the soil's being pushed back and pulling all those, I think there's about five miles of them to do something like that. And fencing, as you can see, there's hundreds and hundreds of miles of fencing being ruined.
"So it's gonna be a major job for landowners, contractors, regenerating the mows. Fencing. This work's going to be going on for years, uh, a year or two. The fail will continue. We are reckoning into when? Into winter. Wow. You'll see these little pockets."
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