Forestry England has big plans for the cash that is now starting to come into national park
Lifting the lid on plan to deforest the New Forest
Sixty years ago, verderers and the county council had a bright idea for reducing the number of animals killed and injured on New Forest roads.
“It is the sort of display one encounters in up-market sports clubs, recording the names of dead cricket captains”
Last month a practising commoner drew my attention to a Forestry England (FE) consultation on permits for riding on its land throughout England.
The common man is not always the innocent, harmless, nature-lover suggested.
Anyone for red squirrel pie?
"For any operator the campsites need to be made to pay well and not simply to tick over with a marginal profit."
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It is not often these days that a major advance is made in our understanding of the Forest’s history.
"They treat the Forest worse than an adventure playground in a big city"
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"The fine condition of the ponies immediately dismisses the shortage of food argument; but the question of water supplies is not so straightforward."
BACK in 1970 an expert committee made recommendations for the end of wild camping and car parking in the New Forest.
THE Forest community seems to be in a state of confusion over the campsites located on the common land and their future.
I AM not sure if we have heard the last of Burley Parish Council’s plans to plant a small copse on Forest land to commemorate the jubilee.
LAST summer Forestry England introduced a new system for regulating organised events in the Forest.
I FIND increasingly frustrating the piles of jargon-filled paperwork which are thrown at members of the Verderers' Court by outside bodies. The latest…
THE recent reports of fires in the Forest over the Easter weekend raise some interesting questions about our vulnerability to fire once climate change…
UNTIL the last few decades virtually nothing was known about the occupation and use of the New Forest in Roman times. The exception to this was the use…
CHRIS PACKHAM’S Inside Out television programme for the BBC on the subject of grazing pressures in the Forest has produced an angry buzzing from the Forest…
OVER Christmas the television provided a wealth of films on the New Forest. Firstly, there was the repeat of a series first shown several years ago and…
