Divisive Tactics

It's notable that SRWT's criticism of the council's crass management of the removal of street trees in Sheffield's Rustlings Road is mainly about the 'divisive tactics'. It's hard to find anyone who supports the council on this, but SRWT is very careful not to say they are categorically against the chainsaw option.

Which is just as well because they are themselves heavily into their own desecration on Blacka and chain saws are part of that.

At least the council might claim that the trees on Rustlings Road are not suitable for the area. But the trees being hacked down up here by SWT's own chain-saw gang are healthy and beautiful and genuine British native trees and a valuable part of the wildlife and landscape. Also the street tree corpses have already been removed while these will be unlikely to be given that dignity - maybe being left as an example to other parts of the natural world not to get above itself; this is man's world, not nature's.

Nor did these trees cause any obstruction for walkers as is claimed by the council for those on Rustlings Road. Indeed a mere few yards away SWT has installed its own obstruction on a Public Right of Way in the form of a dumping of stones that cause a risk to ankles.

We might have hoped that the desire to provide tasks for their workforce and their machinery could have led to them spending time removing that very alien and anti-wildlife intrusion, their barbed wire fence. But that fence, for them, is sacred to their role, probably being considered for a future logo when the badger is deemed old hat and too emblematic of real wildlife.

As for 'divisive tactics' they have plenty of experience in that department which does not need spelling out any more.