Chain-Saw Alert

More crass intervention imminent from conservation vandal madcaps.

 

The storyline does not change. If it's not chain saw murder it's herbicide poisoning. Cutting down trees is an obsession with sections of today's conservation industry. Forget any assertion that they value wildlife when they swing into manly action bent on cutting down some of the best wildlife.

The only excuse I've heard for destroying trees here in this part of Blacka is that eventually trees would spread across Cowsick and change the habitat in which other plants thrive such as Bog Asphodel. That's the kind of tangled up thinking you get into when you try to justify intervention.What could be more mind-boggling than cutting down beautiful native trees to 'protect' a special wild flower when at the same time you're bringing in non native alien heavy farm beasts who trample all over the very same flowers?

On this part of Blacka the landscape is brought to life by the trees that are there all the time. They are mainly young and have slowly and heroically survived the worst of droughts, bizzards, severe frosts and storms. Their position alongside and across the levels owes nothing to the human intervention we know about from the present management characterised by clumsiness and poor taste and owes everything to the spirit of true wildlife.

Some of us have watched them and loved them and photographed them over many years. Those planning to destroy them should be ashamed for even thinking about it.

Last year trees were casually destroyed in the area of this photograph purely, I believe, to satisfy the need to give some employment to surplus workforce. Remember this when somebody tries to get you to contribute funds to wildlife charities and demand that they show how well informed they are about what's going on here.

Please God, give us some land free from meddlesome humans.