{"id":7221,"date":"2018-04-26T06:31:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T06:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7221"},"modified":"2018-04-26T06:31:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T06:31:37","slug":"colonial-impudence-in-the-english-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2018\/04\/26\/colonial-impudence-in-the-english-lakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonial impudence in the English Lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while back, I re-published an extract from the\u00a0Rank Grass and Bracken Times<\/em> which had first been written at the time that\u00a0foot and mouth disease threatened to wipe sheep farming from England's Lake District hills.<\/p>\n

Here's another lively extract; this time about re-wilding.<\/p>\n

( Gaiayear 632.41.b3 ) ...<\/strong><\/p>\n

Disappointing news from North-west Sector 9 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite the diligent efforts of a range of useful human idiots in the National Trust, the RSPB, the Guardian newspaper (and in other ecologically-progressive organs) to rid our high fell country of the hated sheep and their masters, there has been a setback to our plans to restore the land's\u00a0harmonies. \u00a0Once again, these lie distorted, this time by pious international do-goodery.<\/p>\n

As is well known, our occupied high lands, are laid waste to turf by alien Herdwick and Rough Fell sheep. \u00a0They select our youngest and most tender shoots on which to feast.\u00a0 We had hoped that the human re-wilding movement would help us convert the high fells back to pre-human times when we, the rank grasses and bracken, were at one with Gaia.<\/p>\n

But the rebarbative UNESCO, for all its talk of solidarity, it is no friend to bracken and rank grass. \u00a0It has given the high fells a sheep-friendly award \u2013 world heritage (conservation) status \u2013 which will undermine re-wilding efforts. \u00a0The themes that underpin the Lake District as a cultural landscape include what they term its \"dramatic farmed landscape\".<\/p>\n

Such colonial impudence! \u00a0They act as if this were their land instead of ours: the glorious bracken and fine rank grasses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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