The tree experts havn’t completed their report yet but have given me ‘A Basis for Management’ to read out at the meeting which includes – “since the main value of these trees is not timber production, the aim should be to allow them to grow on for as long as possible during thier natural life. … More Trees lives are on a different time scale: page 18 of Beeches, Boreholes and Badgers
27th June 1996 National Park arrange a meeting – Rusland Reading Room – 7.30pm to explain their decision to fell. Too many people turn up so the church is used. Chief Bureaucrat does his slippery thing and says “we are not getting rid of the beeches, but we are putting alot of money into replanting … More Bats! page 17 of Beeches, Boreholes and Badgers
Rusland Pool – the iron bridge- used to walk over this to and from the school bus. This is the river through the Rusland valley that flows out to Morecambe Bay which is: ” a sink for particle associated contaminants” from continuing Sellafield discharges. These discharges are now a nuclear dump in the silts of … More Rusland Pool: page 16 of Beeches, Boreholes and Badgers
June 14th 1996 Unbelievable response to a letter I put in the paper asking people if they would like to help ‘Save the Rusland Beeches’. Ive sent off 38 petition forms. One of the people signed up to help is Len McCullen, a local historian who has researched the ghosts we used to scare ourselves … More The Legend of the Ghost: page 15 of Beeches, Boreholes and Badgers
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