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Originally Posted by Alan I’d love to see the forests re-established, and many other areas for that matter.
The only problem I have with it is the term ‘re-wilding’ in a way it’s a contradiction in terms. To have a new wild area we’d have to manage it at first to some extent, which isn’t wild! We have to start somewhere though so I'll have to overlook that one!
Another problem I have, is that a lot of people seem to have the opinion that most of the landscape needs to be managed to stop it ‘going to wrack and ruin’ as they often put it! They don’t stop to consider that the planet looked after itself very well thank you before we evolved!
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The term re-wilding is logical and the management at the beginning is part of the process.
We have a long way to go however on our wanderings how many of us go along country lanes to find hundreds of yards of verges neatly mown and manicured by residents of nearby houses and cottages? it may look "nice" to them but all we are seeing really is a bland (and mishapen bit of lawn). Actually as I understand it is illegal to do this yet local councils do little if anything to discourage it