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<blockquote data-quote="wr." data-source="post: 7143923" data-attributes="member: 5835"><p>In our case, the common is owned by the Brecon Beacons National Park. They bought it from Eagle Star Insurance in the late seventies for the grand sum of 96p/acre. We, the commoners were not given a chance to purchase it. The Nat Park looked into spraying the bracken but decided against that for various reasons. They do cut some of the gorse from time to time though. We've asked them to leave certain patches of gorse for the yellowhammers, of which we have quite a number. The Nat Park are more than happy that we cut and bale the bracken.[ATTACH=full]908630[/ATTACH]</p><p>Although other farms have rights to our common, we have been the only active graziers for over twenty years.</p><p>I guess we are very lucky that we've never had a problem with ticks. I know that some commons have a bad problem with them. Some to the extent that commoners cease to use their grazing rights. I know the common you were on, very well but I was not aware that they had a tick problem. </p><p>This aerial view of our common shows the iron age remains on the summit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wr., post: 7143923, member: 5835"] In our case, the common is owned by the Brecon Beacons National Park. They bought it from Eagle Star Insurance in the late seventies for the grand sum of 96p/acre. We, the commoners were not given a chance to purchase it. The Nat Park looked into spraying the bracken but decided against that for various reasons. They do cut some of the gorse from time to time though. We've asked them to leave certain patches of gorse for the yellowhammers, of which we have quite a number. The Nat Park are more than happy that we cut and bale the bracken.[ATTACH type="full"]908630[/ATTACH] Although other farms have rights to our common, we have been the only active graziers for over twenty years. I guess we are very lucky that we've never had a problem with ticks. I know that some commons have a bad problem with them. Some to the extent that commoners cease to use their grazing rights. I know the common you were on, very well but I was not aware that they had a tick problem. This aerial view of our common shows the iron age remains on the summit. [/QUOTE]
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