I took a group of key Lake District partners (RSPB, National Trust, Natural England & United Utilities) only last month to Carrifran to see the impressive project and gain inspiration into the art of the possible. It certainly is a great way forward, one Id like to replicate on some other sites.
We were all left impressed by the drive of the project, the diversity in the habitats (helped on by a little planting) and the alpine herb communities that had moved off the inaccessible crags following sheep/deer/goat removal and spread into the valley bottom. For those of us lucky enough to travel to see diverse alpine rich swards in valley bottoms and sides is the norm overseas where bad land management practices haven't denuded what should be there. In this country we have become used to not seeing such things, we almost expect to see vast carpets of Nardus stricta but it shouldn't look like that! Colleagues when seeing the rich developing swards at Carrifran where almost surprised as we instinctively think that species like Sedum roseum only clings to cliffs.
