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On Sunday 05 July 2009 15:28:24 John Flannigan wrote:

If you look at the Forestry Act we can see quite clearly an increase in
woodland cover over decades which suggest that has worked. I actually think
that we need to adopt the Foresters view of urban trees which makes
wholesale protection much more appropriate. The Tree Commission isn't all
one way!

Which forestry act? The 1919 one or any of the additions till 1967? In fact I 
think it was the 1986 one which finally locked down woodland, prior to that 
there was not a presumption that land should stay under woodland cover, 
genrally if it was fit to fell it could freely move between forest and 
agriculture. Of course not being caught remained the major way tree cover was 
and is lost at these scales.

The felling licence didn't really protect woodland per se it was designed to 
prevent wasteful felling of what had been perceived to be a strategic 
resource.

If you're considering the financial incentives to land owners or the 
subsidies 
to state owned forsets then that's a different matter.

AJH




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