fitzcoraldo wrote:
Heather burning is part of moorland management especially on grouse moors.
Fair enough, if that's your bag. I wouldn't know a grouse if one jumped up and bit me. I guess management is the key thing. What I saw here was hillsides on fire. Maybe they originally were managing the fires but fecked off to the pub cos they got too thirsty.
fitzcoraldo wrote:
As for Bracken, it's nasty assed stuff chocka full of carcinogens and home to a multitude of mothertsuckin ticks.it's just a nasty invasive plant that we used to control by harvesting for all sorts of puposes but now tend to leave alone.
I've always liked bracken; but carcinogens? Is there nothing safe left?
fitzcoraldo wrote:
I guess we could say that fire occurs naturally on moorland and is one natures great levellers. However it should be noted that moorlands are essentially man-made deserts, monuments to mans prehistoric conquest of the landscape.
Man – a virus with shoes. (B. Hicks) 