KarynK
Well-Known Member
http://ww2.defra.gov.uk/news/2011/02/11/forestry-spending-review/
I appreciate that in some places the FC have done themselves no favours, but the sell off to private hands is not the answer. Please consider supporting the campaign to stop the sell off to private ownership because we will loose access or have to pay heavily for it and once it's done there is NO going back!
Pressure needs to be kept up so that a reasonable solution can be found that does not involve a big sell off which we will still be paying for through subsidies to the purchasers to stop them cutting all the tree's down or shutting woodland for a sizeable part of the year because shooting is a good way to earn money and public access to shoots does not work!! Or if the RSPB get their way and get hold of these forests we our horses, bikes and dogs could well be denied access in the breeding season!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here's a useful google map of campaigns so far.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?hl...52.722986,-3.14209&spn=8.762901,23.269043&z=6
Here is a letter from someone who was t one stage involved in the New Forest NP he makes some valid points
http://www.onevoice.officeoverload.com/BarrieFoleyOpenLetterFeb2011.htm
(lifted from the One Voice Campaign to rein in the National Parks Authority in the New Forest)
I appreciate that in some places the FC have done themselves no favours, but the sell off to private hands is not the answer. Please consider supporting the campaign to stop the sell off to private ownership because we will loose access or have to pay heavily for it and once it's done there is NO going back!
Pressure needs to be kept up so that a reasonable solution can be found that does not involve a big sell off which we will still be paying for through subsidies to the purchasers to stop them cutting all the tree's down or shutting woodland for a sizeable part of the year because shooting is a good way to earn money and public access to shoots does not work!! Or if the RSPB get their way and get hold of these forests we our horses, bikes and dogs could well be denied access in the breeding season!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here's a useful google map of campaigns so far.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?hl...52.722986,-3.14209&spn=8.762901,23.269043&z=6
Here is a letter from someone who was t one stage involved in the New Forest NP he makes some valid points
http://www.onevoice.officeoverload.com/BarrieFoleyOpenLetterFeb2011.htm
(lifted from the One Voice Campaign to rein in the National Parks Authority in the New Forest)
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