Is this question sincere or disingenuous - a complete misinterpretation of all I've said?
Apparently they are planning to cut down more birch trees at Cowsick. The stated justification is that Cowsick bog is 'the most biodiverse' part of Blacka and birch is 'threatening' that.
I repeat once more, mixing patience and indignation, that I don't want human intervention. If one part of the natural world gains an advantage over another part that is just what happens. When office workers decide that cowpats shall be deposited all over an otherwise beautiful scene that is vandalism. Hence the comment "you like bog asphodel" comment, implying that if I don't support the felling of trees then I'm responsible for the flower being put under threat. Do they really not get it or are they so strangling their thinking to deny the obvious?
It is getting to the point where I might have to accept that stupidity and insensitivity has defeated me. Without the trees this place has no value for me. They break up the monotony of the view. They show the passage of the seasons. The birds love them. But some perverse agricultural dogma has it that cows and cowpats are more important than native trees. Where do these people get programmed? Are there indoctrination clinics, disguised as in-service conferences?
It has to be asked. Just how far does the biodiversity agenda go? In the case of something being acknowledged as natural and beautiful is it justifiable to change it industrially for the worse because there would probably be an improvement in its biodiversity? If that question can't be answered then they should be doing a different job. (South Yorkshire has a vacancy at the moment.)
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