Sorry to disappoint anyone who interpreted my last post's title to mean this blog was going away for a while. Blacka Blogger is still here and posting and hoping that in some very small way he can shed some light on what's valuable around here (and at the same time make life just a little bit difficult for the philistines).
Recent rumours have suggested that SWT and Derbyshire Wildlife Trust are wanting to take over a large area of public land not far from Blacka Moor, a section of the moorland known as the Eastern Peak District Moors. This is something that Blacka Blogger cannot avoid commenting on. How far this scheme has advanced I don't know. It may just be at the lobbying stage when various people with a strong view get together and form a strategy hoping to get their act together and their pitch agreed. It may already have been discussed informally by various interest groups who will have been expected to be sympathetic in order to be well prepared before it gets into the public domain. The wider public and those who might have reservations usually take some time to get any opposition articulated.
From what I've learned about the way wildlife trusts operate I am utterly oppposed to any further land in this area being handed over to SWT or any other trust without a properly established consultation process. The record of these organisations and especially SWT has been very mixed to say the least. Their philosophy is all about control and management with no place for informal natural change. And there are serious questions about their competence.
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