A PHD student at University of Sheffield has the bright idea of studying grass verges and that which grows thereon but then made the fateful decision of contacting SRWT.
Never missing a chance to push their 'must-manage-it' agenda, Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust are now getting involved in roadside verges.
Stand by for conservation grazing and barbed wire. So yet another informal and serendipital hardly- managed-at-all corner of our lives gets the incompetent top-down treatment with full potential for spin, publicity, press release and grant application.
Let us know what wildlife you see using #livinghighways pic.twitter.com/2Z7Jm2UK0h— Sheffield WT (@WildSheffield) May 23, 2016
Before deciding to get SRWTs cooperation in getting more wild flowers on grassy verges you should do some homework. This is a picture of some grassland taken today that's managed by SRWT. It should have lots of wildflowers. But,as you see, it hasn't.
It's utterly, mindblowingly boring. Having second thoughts? Remember this grassland has been managed by SRWT for 15 years and is still like this. Why? Could it possibly be that the state gives them money to keep it 'sheepwrecked'?
It should also be worthwhile to look at posts on this blog from four years ago. They might give you something to chew on.
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