I can not believe that the government thinks that turning over public woodland to private investors can be anything other than a monumentous mistake. How long would it be before theres turnstiles at the start of a woodland trail charging £1.50 entrance fee,how many woodland owners will allow us to place and hunt for caches.On the Jeremy Vine show on Radio two today the government spokesman (at least i think he was i may well be wrong) dismissed rambling and enjoying the delights of our ancient woodlands as a middle class activerty.The words he used were "why should everyone subsidise the activties of the middle classes".Now this caused me to shout and swear at the radio, i dont consider myself to be working,middle or upper class my wife and i work hard during the week and love to pursue this hobby of ours at the weekends we especially enjoy wandering around muddy,deserted woods not because its middle class but because its fun!!! Do what you need to do and fight this proposed act before we are all forced to search for urban micros as the only way we can cache.
Click on this link to sign The Woodland Trust Petition
http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/en/campaigning/save-ancient-forests/Pages/fc-disposals-act-now.aspx?WT.mc_id=fc
