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In article <AE8DA8A9966899833@tygh.demon.co.uk>,
geoff@tygh.demon.co.uk (Geoff Dellow) wrote:

>In article <AE774B0C9668B0E59@tygh.demon.co.uk>,
>geoff@tygh.demon.co.uk (Geoff Dellow) wrote on !st October 1996:
>
>>In article <AE63F4C1966815C49@tygh.demon.co.uk>,
>>geoff@tygh.demon.co.uk (Geoff Dellow) wrote:
>>
>>>The Lake District National Park Authority (LDNPA)  will decide whether to
>>>go ahead with cutting down all fifty four of the famous 200 year old
>>>Rusland Beeches at their meeting of the full Board  on October 1st.
>>
>>The Board decided to clear fell all the Beeches at their meeting today.
>>There appeared to be little discussion at the meeting (I wasn't there). The
>>Chairman urged the members to back this recommendation and the proposal was
>>supported by a majority of 14 to 10.
><snip>>
>>We shall be battling as long as the trees still stand. The next goal will
>>be to persuade the Department of the Environment not to lift the
>>preservation orders.
>
>A profound moral issue faces the Department of the Environment in the next
>few weeks following their inspection this last Thursday, 17th October of
>the Rusland Beeches in Cumbria. The decision by them to support or refuse
>the application for the lifting of tree preservation orders on these old
>Beeches by the Lake District National Park Authority will have far reaching
>consequences to all mature trees throughout the United Kingdom.
<snip>

Since the above a condensed version of our letter was published in the
Independent.

Still regular items in the local press and the radio while proceedings of
the LDNPA are followed carefully.

The report from the Department of the environment is awaited,  ( to refuse
to lift the tree protection orders on theBeeches)no sign of when. They
could be waiting to see which way the wind is blowing  (! ) as piblic
opinion from people from all walks of life is definitely for keeping the
Beeches.

In spite of gales the Beeches are showing themselves very fit and
unyielding ! No branches down confirming daily that the decision that they
are "dangerous" is a gross injustice.

Meanwhile an excellent article has been published in the November issue of
"Forestry and British Timber".

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FOR THOSE WITH ACCESS TO BBC 1 :-
Furthermore a brief documentary on the Beeches is scheduled on Countryfile
for this Sunday 17th Nov, at 12.00 a. m. on BBC 1, or failing this, the
following week.
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More articles have appeared in local papers and interviews on Radio
regarding Prof Pennington's connection with the Beeches. ( He is a
decendant of the Penningtons of Furness, tenant farmers and Westmorland
statesmen , and someone whose father's ashes were scattered under the
beeches. He is also a prominent medical microbiologist.

One member of the Board of the LDNPA has changed her mind in favour of the
Beeches and we hope others will follow !

WE HOPE THIS NEWS ENCOURAGES OTHERS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD TO PUT UP A FIGHT
TO RESIST THE FELLING OF MATURE TREES WHEN THE ALTERNATIVE IS

 BIGGER AND BETTER , BORING AND BARREN HIGHWAYS FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT

Geoff Dellow
Save the Rusland Beeches Campaign