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  1. Is “Managing” Nature the Right Thing to Do, or Just an Excuse?

    It never fails to weary me how interest groups reach for academic work as a drunk reaches for a lamppost, more for support than illumination. A paper appears, and before the ink is dry it is trimmed, polished, and made to serve a house creed. We have seen the trick befor ...

    fhithich.uk/2026/02/15/is-mana

    #GreatAytonMoor #NorthYorkMoors #GrouseManagement

  2. Paradise Lost? The Noble Art of Swidden Burning

    Ah, the noble swiddens! That iconic mosaic left by the beneficent, precise art of setting fire to the countryside, all for the good of its charming inhabitants: grouse—who, one imagines, must dance a jolly jig calling 'hahahahahaha' when those nutritious shoots emerge. How delightful to know that we can rely on a “low-temperature” burn, bare ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=36589

    #GreatAytonMoor #NorthYorkMoors #ecology #GrouseManagement