Environmental vandalism by Landlord

[highseas]

He hasn't got a twin brother down in Dorset has he?

Where's that island where they did the anthrax testing? Can't we stick both of them there with a couple of strimmers and a shed full of chemicals?

 

Isn't digging up wild bluebells a criminal offence?

yes very illigle most people who own land think nothing has the right to exsist unless it going to make them mony

[39TDS]

yes very illigle most people who own land think nothing has the right to exsist unless it going to make them mony

A very long way from the truth I assure you. I would go so far as to say you are talking nonsense.

[highseas]

A very long way from the truth I assure you. I would go so far as to say you are talking nonsense.

i worke around and for some very large and well known estates and this is almost certianly the attitude you however dont agree so lets agree to disagree

[ack-ack]

i worke around and for some very large and well known estates and this is almost certianly the attitude you however dont agree so lets agree to disagree

 

There's always folk that do what they want regardless. We had a chap called Hughy Batchelor down our way. He thrived off the infamy that his laNd raping brought him.

 

There's also a lot of folk that see themselves as custodians and see their stewardship as essential for their land and the following generations.

 

There's some and some.

Edited August 7, 2011 by ack-ack

[39TDS]

I don't doubt it happens, it was the word "most" I objected to.

[Alycidon]

Hedge trimming is usually started as the harvest comes off, usually the cropped fields are done first in late July/early August. Grass fields are then done Nov/Dec time. This is trimming as opposed to laying etc, ie the top foot of growth comes off. There are no nests in this material.

 

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[BenBhoy]

My Landlord of my shooting ground is one of the worst environmental vandals I have ever seen.

Today he has begun hedge cutting in the middle of July. Worst of all most of our hedges are hawthorn, a vital nest site species and winter food source for birds. He does this every year. This estate now produces almost no haws or any other hedgerow berries.

 

He also systematically sprays the underbrush in hedgrows and byways all over the estate every summer, killing all nettles he sees and any hedgrow flowers. He wades into woods spraying bramble patches for no rational reason whatever.

He sprays stream banks thinking the vegetation will choke the stream and cause flooding. It is a winter chalk stream, a unique habitat. It doesn't flow in summer anyway and people have been living on its banks since the ice-age and no one has been flooded yet.

Wherever he goes he leaves a trail of dead brown vegetation and smashed nest sites. It looks as though a plague has passed through the landscape.

He is utterly ignorant of native ecology and will listen to no one. All around him are fools and only he understands land management. Needless to say, he is not from a farming or land management background.

 

I feel a mixture of despair and utter fury when I see the destruction each year. I have tried reasoning with him over individual instances but he isn't interested. If I confront him as I would like to I will lose my shooting.

 

I have contacted Natural England and told them of his activities. They say there is little they can do unless he is on one of their stewardship schemes.

Who else in authority can I report him to and recruit to my cause to stop this lunatic?I'll be grateful for any advice I can get.

 

only one man can help you.... Captain Planet.

[scolopax]

walking back along the seawall last night I was watching a tractor make a very impressive bonfire of assorted hedgerow trees, 12 to 20 foot hawthorne and ash in the main and all freshly uprooted. When I got back the tractor was returning and I had a bit of chat with the young lad who was driving, mainly about him scaring away all the geese , but he did say 'it was just a bit of tidying up'.

 

The thing which got me though is this a typical arable farm for the area, big 100 acre fields, hederows cut back to the bare minimum, but evidently even with a very big, featureless but productive farm they still cannot stand to see a line of young trees growing alongside the railway line.

[Pheasant Feeder]

The only way I can see of curing the problem is through education. Try to get the guy to take a gun in the shoot and then the benefit to wildlife is also of benefit to him. Imagine if this guy was to google the perfect shape of a hedgerow to drive game over? you'd end up with all the edges a perfect A shape! If you can develop his interest in shooting he could become your best asset.

Alternatively he might be the sort of personality who you find you would never be able to work with, and who might decide that if things aren't done his way then its his land and he's gonna take his bat and ball home. Only you can decide.