🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <AE774B0C9668B0E59@tygh.demon.co.uk>,
geoff@tygh.demon.co.uk (Geoff Dellow) wrote:

>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.
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>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should have been replaced by more sensitive people in touch with the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.
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>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
>!  !
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>Thanks for all your support and we'll meet again for the next environmental
>issue.
>Geoff
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>>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.
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>>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.
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