New direction for England’s public forest estate
Here are some links
to a number of articles:
A view from
Herefordshire by David Lovelace
The Times
7 February 2011
Hereford
Times 3 February 2011
Dame Fiona Reynolds in
The Times 3 Feb 2011
Country
Life 2 February 2011
The
Times 2 February 2011
Country
Life 19 January 2011
The
State of the Wye
We are seriously
worried at the state of the Wye - pollution, silting, destruction of its
banks are among the issues that trouble us:
Here we see the river being
sampled from Bredwardine Bridge after heavy rainfall in early June 2009.
The silt in the bucket is allowed to settle, and then the number of
tonnes of lost top soil per day surging past the bridge can
be estimated
When the river is
full (although not so muddy) and flowing fast, there is danger to the
bridge from fallen trees carried down on the current:
There is serious
danger, too, from bankside incursions. See David Lovelace's recent
paper
on this subject.
Here are two pages giving a list of operations liable to damage the features of
Special Scientific Interest of the River Wye: page 1,
page 2. See also these
descriptions of the Lower
and Upper
Wye SSSIs
The
Severn Barrage
At
a recent committee meeting our attention was drawn to the findings of a
recent enquiry, jointly sponsored by the RSPB
and the Wye & Usk
Foundation, into the plans for
the proposed Severn
Barrage. We were warned of the serious danger to wildlife,
particularly to fish and birds, posed by this project.
More information can be found on the RSPB's
website.
See also what the
media and other bodies have to say on the matter:
BERR Feasibility Study
and BERR
Proposed Schemes
DECC
Wild
Life Trusts 2 March 2010
David
Kidney's Wildlife Trust Launch speech 2 March 2010
This is Gloucestershire10
March 2010
This
is Bristol 10 March 2010
ITN - Headlines 2
Mar 2010
The
Times 30 October 2009
New
Civil Engineer
The
Telegraph Feb 2009
The
Guardian Jan 2009
The
Guardian June 2008
BBC
Wales Nov 2008
Wikipedia
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