🚀 go-pugleaf

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.

We are very disappointed with the decision and can only feel that the board
are out of touch with the general public and will have to take the
consequences from them for their actions. We suspect that the whole
creditability of the National Park will suffer dramatically. I believe that
this must be a warning world wide to all those that value mature trees to
be on the look out to protect them as there could be very few to be found
in as little as ten years and then we will ring our hands about the
terrible decisions that were made at the turn of the century by people that
should have been replaced by more sensitive people in touch with the
public.

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. More details to follow after we have licked our wounds
!  !

Thanks for all your support and we'll meet again for the next environmental
issue.
Geoff

>
>If this decision goes ahead it will send shock waves all over Britain, and
>possiblythe world to those that have mature trees overhanging either roads
>or public footpaths with a right of way.  It will say that similar action
>of felling apparently safe beautiful trees is not only permissible but
>desirable if there is the remotest chance of  the public being  injured as
>they travel or move close to them . A study of this area of Risk Analysis
>is  urgently needed.
>
>The LDNPA plan to take this extraordinary step to fell all of these
>magnificent  beeches which run alongside a country lane because they
>believe that they are or will soon become unsafe. This is a complete
>contradiction to their role as protectors of the environment and comes
>about because they became the owners of the land that they acquired form
>the Archibald Family in order to take care of them. Thus they are both
>judge and applicant in this unusual case.