Favoured or Doomed

These parts of Blacka are favoured by being unfavoured by the attentions of managers.
Is it worth grappling in your mind with the idea of what the unfavourable condition on the land would turn into once it was truly favourable? If we know anything it's that they have no idea at all what favourable condition looks like on this kind of land; it after all a fictitious concept driven by someone's idea of 'culture'. The pictures seen of Moors for the Future projections are amusingly Disneyish.

Why not just go to those parts where they've kept away and enjoy the closest to 'wild' and untouched in the woodland before they decide it too has to be exploited?

Enjoy the fallen boughs covered in moss, trees growing as they are not supposed to grow, the twisted forms, the unexpected encounters, the sense of tranquillity, the many and various kinds of decline and decay, the natural artistry of the woodland floor, views changing with each step, spacings too close or too far but never just as man would design it.

Maybe not for everyone but there are those who prefer junk fodder to decent grub and anyway there's something for everyone. If the standardisation and homogeneity carry on through Unnatural England's landscape categorisations these places will be doomed.

Managerialism is itchy to get its grasping fingers on anything that can be used and someone one day will be along with a clipboard and a grant application to declare these woods need thinning or coppicing. Let's hope they trip up on a bramble shoot or that exposed tree root.

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