Those who decide what can and can't grow on land they themselves call wild must belong to the deity. Attention was drawn to a helicopter flying across the road on Houndkirk Moor. This is presumably the responsibility of Sheffield City Council and/or its outsourced agent Kier Asset Management and/or its outsourced agent. the great and upstanding National Trust - of which I am a member but never get asked my view on policies on land management (or anything else come to think of it).
Most likely they are spraying with the banned Asulam against bracken, declared to be undesirable - or 'not one of us'. It would be interesting to know what precautions were taken against accidental spraying of people. I can think of cyclists on the road. There might even be walkers on the moor, though anyone finding this dreary stretch worth walking over must be odd indeed, especially when neighbouring Blacka has such delights as bilberries, rowan berries, better flowering heather, cowberry and a chance of seeing exciting wild animals. Now can the conservationists come up with a suitable spray to get rid of them? They were never part of the original prescription. The conservation gods should consider.
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