“A true sense of wilderness” ??

“A true sense of wilderness”!!! Quoted from the Sheffield Moors Partnership’s draft Master Plan.    Wilderness? My artificial leg!!

Where do I start? The old unreconstructed and unmodernised farm I was working on in the 1960s had more wildness than moors like Burbage and Hallam and the Eastern Moors. So had the city bomb sites and disused air raid shelters I played in as a child! These dreary monoculture moors retain the repressed character of grouse-shooting estates long after they ceased to be so, too much so to inspire anyone looking for mystery and excitement. What you see is what you b***** well get - miles and miles of it. That may be fine for someone who doesn't look about them much maybe on a jogging exercise or speeding through on a mountain bike. Many of those will have other priorities such as the activity itself. But we deserve better than this and so do our grandchildren. If we want to bring up new generations  to have some imagination we need to nourish their senses with some genuinely natural landscape, not tell them that what is patently artificial is ‘true’ wilderness. God knows they get exposed to enough lies and spin these days.

Once Blacka started to go more wild after the managers sort of forgot about it, it developed some character and more natural beauty. That’s what the boring moors lack. They’ve been too managed. What’s the lesson? Who said “Sack the whole tribe of managers”?  
A bit harsh surely? Maybe we should just rewild the managers. They've spent too long in their offices. A case for "I'm a Manager, Get Me Into There" ?

Something a bit more wild:
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