Country Diary

I was interested in this.  As an occasional reader of the Guardian's Country Diary I noticed that today's was about Ringinglow and the unusual excess of cotton grass (bog-cotton to some) just round the corner from here, mentioned numerous times on this blog. And it's written by Ed Douglas a journalist who, according to his profile on The Guardian, has a 'passion for the wilder corners of the natural world'. Surely then he knows that there's nothing wild about the moors he's talking about. And that the cotton grass explosion this year is welcome mainly because it's a  change from the monotonous look of this stretch of over managed moorland. But reading his piece I sense he's not really thought about the management issues. Unless he has links with the farming and grouse moor industries.