Disaster Looms - or Does It?

Fewer managers? Will the natural world end? Who will dig its grave?
Step forward .........

https://ianswalkonthewildside.wordpress.com/2016/11/05/bye-bye-peak-national-park/

When we hear that the PDNPA has decided to reduce the number of middle managers employed in the National Park should we be concerned, should we be scandalised or should we actually welcome the news? Another option might simply be a request for more information while not envying anyone whose job may be going.

The post linked to above seems to be clear that this is some sort of catastrophe, as witnessed in the alarming language, the illustrations, the use of bold type and capitals.

This blog has often had cause to say there's been too much intrusive management in local parts of the Peak National Park. That's not personal to anyone in particular, just a statement that some places are best left alone for nature to find its own way, while many managers have fostered a narrative claiming that dire results would occur if they were not in control and constantly intervening; not much different, as far as I can see, to farmers' claims that taking sheep off the moors would spell environmental catastrophe. That's found an echo elsewhere and here is not the only place where over-management has been criticised.

Management here on Blacka has followed an extended period without management where nature ran things in her own way. Since the return of managers, I believe, long with others, that much has got uglier; barbed wire, intrusive boundaries, farm animals and their excrement, the casual felling of native trees. It's often seemed that jobs have been created for the sake of it.  I've posted before about the amazing number of managers who have turned up to meetings, sometimes 'private' meetings outside scrutiny; and then public meetings where they have outnumbered members of the public.

Of course the over-dramatisation of consequences is what one might expect from those whose job is to promote management and even more if one's job is to help run courses for those who wish to pursue a career in management.

Incidentally I wonder what the photo at the top of the post linked to is telling us? Why no trees? All looks 'better' under snow. What role do managers have in this? Should the managers have rebuilt the wall? - that's what's happened here.