Conform or Else

When humans don't interfere nature thrives. Original and picturesque forms are created, sometimes elegant and other times strange and compelling.

That is why the years of non intervention on Blacka were the best thing that could have happened.

Man is itchy fingered and can't leave well alone. These natural sculptures are an aberration in the small imaginations of those for whom all land must be managed like a garden or farm. For such people a tree has to grow a certain way, usually a single trunk with no low branching. That's the way they learned to draw them as children. Anything that does not conform to the simple pattern must be made to respond to force. Too much individuality is bad for collective discipline. Hence everywhere now we are seeing young trees being punished that threaten to diverge from the child's simplistic concept . The chain saw is taken to them. 

The need for parade ground posture means non standard limbs must be taken off and the spoils dumped at the side. This is a now common sight on Blacka in and around the newer woodland. Piles of logs, branches and twigs cover the woodland floor. You're not allowed to forget that this is a place where destructive man is showing his compulsion to be in control.