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CS on Traditional Orchards- unwise?
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<blockquote data-quote="PhilipB" data-source="post: 6640898" data-attributes="member: 106154"><p>So I've looked into EIA.</p><p></p><p>It is so frustrating- EIAs are needed for uncultivated land and- as a bit of an afterthought- BAP Priority habitats. PH's are, by definition 'semi natural'.</p><p></p><p>I phoned the NFU about this.</p><p></p><p>This is so unfair- I guess it kind of works for other PH's- but there is nothing 'semi natural' about an orchard- it is as man-made as they come- and they were lavished with arsenic and nicotine, back in the day, to make sure that nature didn't get a foot-hold.</p><p></p><p>Furthermore- reading the literature- they were designated Traditional Orchards from aerial photographs and only some have been 'ground-truthed'- and those that have have 'truthed' have been recorded as pear (there is not a pear tree in them!)</p><p></p><p>I feel I am in double hole- I might be able to prove that they were 'cultivated' by spray records (a bit of a mission as the farmer is dead, and wasn't big on records)- but that would not remove the fact that they are- physically- Traditional Orchards- and therefore (according to them) If physically a Traditional Orchard then, by definition- Semi natural.</p><p></p><p>Land is orchards under BPS. - 'Permanent crops', I think. and in the June Survey 'Horticulture- orchards for human consumption'</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PhilipB, post: 6640898, member: 106154"] So I've looked into EIA. It is so frustrating- EIAs are needed for uncultivated land and- as a bit of an afterthought- BAP Priority habitats. PH's are, by definition 'semi natural'. I phoned the NFU about this. This is so unfair- I guess it kind of works for other PH's- but there is nothing 'semi natural' about an orchard- it is as man-made as they come- and they were lavished with arsenic and nicotine, back in the day, to make sure that nature didn't get a foot-hold. Furthermore- reading the literature- they were designated Traditional Orchards from aerial photographs and only some have been 'ground-truthed'- and those that have have 'truthed' have been recorded as pear (there is not a pear tree in them!) I feel I am in double hole- I might be able to prove that they were 'cultivated' by spray records (a bit of a mission as the farmer is dead, and wasn't big on records)- but that would not remove the fact that they are- physically- Traditional Orchards- and therefore (according to them) If physically a Traditional Orchard then, by definition- Semi natural. Land is orchards under BPS. - 'Permanent crops', I think. and in the June Survey 'Horticulture- orchards for human consumption' [/QUOTE]
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