The Spoiled and the Spoilers

It's a funny kind of minimalism. 'Minimal intervention' was supposed to be key to the vision leading to Sheffield Wildlife Trust's management plan for Blacka Moor. But we should not take these people or anything they say with any seriousness at all. That way leads to wasting a lot of your time and hours of frustration. No it's best to expect nothing more than you would from a very badly behaved child. Turn your back for one minute and he will get his way. If only they would stay at their headquarters/ naughty step and just do paperwork. But the paperwork itself leads to more and more vandalism.

What does it remind us of? Of course, it's the burning of grouse moors to create more feed for grouse and stop natural landscapes developing. So fire breaks as interpreted by SWT are areas laid waste as if by fire but done mechanically. The sight is familiar to those who walk on the moors, something I gave up doing long ago bored by the sheer visual monotony and industrialised management of these alien places.

What a picture of man's determination to dominate nature. Is anything safe from these vandals? The odd pleasant glades themselves can not be proof against their meddling and destruction.