The countryside

[Kevtherev]

Now then little thought today whilst hedgecutting and the way the countryside looks today is because it’s a ‘managed landscape’.Whatt happens with rewilding and maintenance of footpaths etc as my pic from today clearly shows?
Do ramblers get stranded in the brambles to be left and savaged by beavers etc?
I’m all for nature and conservation and they both can and do work hand in hand.
Importing food and re wilding parts of Britain is all well and good but what happens to the economy of the country without Agriculture??

 

[DrWazzock]

Was just thinking the same today regarding flooding of nearby forestry plantation to create a wetland / slow the flow zone. What happens to the public footpath that runs though it when it’s under 2 foot or more of water?

 

[Wombat]

Was just thinking the same today regarding flooding of nearby forestry plantation to create a wetland / slow the flow zone. What happens to the public footpath that runs though it when it’s under 2 foot or more of water?

They learn to swim

 

[Kevtherev]

Was just thinking the same today regarding flooding of nearby forestry plantation to create a wetland / slow the flow zone. What happens to the public footpath that runs though it when it’s under 2 foot or more of water?

I don’t think they have thought clearly about public access and the work farmers and landowners do behind the scenes in maintenance and mostly for no financial gain.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

If the public want to use it the route will stay clear.

If they don’t use it the route will become overgrown.

 

[7610 super q]

Well......no.
Pembs National park have a team of blokes with strimmers keeping paths open AYR.

No money for filling in road potholes nor refuse collection mind.

 

[DrWazzock]

If the public want to use it the route will stay clear.

If they don’t use it the route will become overgrown.

Several routes here have been closed because of bank and bridge collapse. The council can’t afford to replace the foot bridges as it costs eleventy billion pounds with all the elf n safety. One or two seem have slipped into the watercourse with a bit more help than Mother Nature, AKA a JCB 13 tonner. Tut tut.

 

[Y Fan Wen]

200 acres next door was planted with native species in 06 and is looking well now. However, I was watching 2 walkers trying to follow the statutory fp through the brambles and they were making 'very' heavy weather of it. I suspect they gave up as I would have seen them passing over my land later on.
Part of the scheme was the provision of a w/chair access viewing point with 2 routes to it making a circular route. I can't imagine how much that cost. It is kept open by annual chemical control.
I have thought about me using a tracked flail mower keeping my statutory fp's and the bridle path open if I end up unstocking and becoming a land manager. Even with the lowered stocking rates caused by the scheme the molinia tussocks are making some paths very difficult indeed to walk.

 

[Kevtherev]

If the public want to use it the route will stay clear.

If they don’t use it the route will become overgrown.

Do ramblers carry secateurs and chainsaws?

 

[steveR]

Was just thinking the same today regarding flooding of nearby forestry plantation to create a wetland / slow the flow zone. What happens to the public footpath that runs though it when it’s under 2 foot or more of water?

They jump from Beaver to Beaver, to drowned Badger....

 

[steveR]

Do ramblers carry secateurs and chainsaws?

Yep, along with wirecutters

 

[steveR]

If the public want to use it the route will stay clear.

If they don’t use it the route will become overgrown.

Then the feckers wander everybloodywhere....

Keep the FP routes clear and the bugger walking where they should be!

 

[steveR]

I don’t think they have thought clearly about public access and the work farmers and landowners do behind the scenes in maintenance and mostly for no financial gain.

Of course they haven't...

Loss of SFP, money gets tight, no maintenance, no self funded conservation areas etc etc.

 

[Cheesehead]

Several routes here have been closed because of bank and bridge collapse. The council can’t afford to replace the foot bridges as it costs eleventy billion pounds with all the elf n safety. One or two seem have slipped into the watercourse with a bit more help than Mother Nature, AKA a JCB 13 tonner. Tut tut.

At £600 odd a little footpath gate I'm not surprised we were looking at putting 3 so we could the lock the 12ft gates that are used at the moment after having stock stolen dad near had a heart attack at the price of them

 

[Cheesehead]

Then the feckers wander everybloodywhere....

Keep the FP routes clear and the bugger walking where they should be!

The local Facebook group had one complaining as a concrete drive/track that he had been using had a No Public Footpath sign put up and a finger post put in pointing at the footpath he was bitching because he didn't want to walk in a muddy field but couldn't let his dog crap over the pavement and leave it as he had been up the drive.

 

[robs1]

You only have to look at the planting they do alongside new roads, it sounds gets out of control, we had a new road through here 25 years ago for which they dug a pond to get clay to build the road up, had a couple of islands and shallow bits left for different wildlife, it's not been touched since so it's just all over grown and silted up, but it's ok because it was designed by clever people with ologies

 

[bluebell]

keep the public out? and wildlife will flourish? example is the armys training live fireing ranges, public out ?

 

[Jackov Altraids]

keep the public out? and wildlife will flourish? example is the armys training live fireing ranges, public out ?

It's amazing how better public access and improving nature are so often connected when they shouldn't be, yet animals grazing and nature are apparently 2 completely separate entities.

 

[Boysground]

Was just thinking the same today regarding flooding of nearby forestry plantation to create a wetland / slow the flow zone. What happens to the public footpath that runs though it when it’s under 2 foot or more of water?

Thats easy, the same as when my water meadows flood. Everyone goes on Facebook and complains about the Landowner wanting the flooding stopped (it’s water meadow it’s supposed to effing flood)
Then wires will get cut and hedges pruned so that people and then my cattle can go where they like
Finally the Parish council will want a meeting. I will tell the yet another new councillor that it’s supposed to flood. They will then want disabled access that’s about 10 styles and 3 bridges that need replacing in my case

Wiltshire council won’t give them any money to sort it because although the footpath was in the same place for my fathers lifetime they still think the map made in 18 something is correct

Finally I will wait a couple of years and the parish councillor who never replies to emails will start the whole thing again

Just a thought
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[Boysground]

Then the feckers wander everybloodywhere....

Keep the FP routes clear and the bugger walking where they should be!

There’s a footpath between 2 blocks of my land. It’s on the boundary between 2 parishes, they both think it’s the other’s responsibility so it doesn’t get cut. This results in dead ends at either end and annoyed walkers. I avoid cutting it as it’s quite a bit of work and the bickering is good sport

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