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Spring/Summer 2021 FOREST MATTERS Issue No: 9 Spring/Summer 2021 FOREST MATTERS In the news 2 Recent developments at the Heritage Centre; Verderers’ 2020 Lockdown activities; New planning implications for the Park Authority; The Agriculture Act 2020 explained. The New Forest’s special qualities 7 Clive Chatters and Russell Wynn discuss the consequences for the Forest of rising visitor numbers and recreational activity. Simon Chadwick’s cartoon 8 Verge parking 9 Photographic evidence of some thoughtless and antisocial New Forest visitor behaviour. 2021 AGM Papers 10–12 2020 Minutes and Reports for 2020. Opinion: Big Three plus “big tent” 13 Tony Hockley argues for a more all- inclusive approach to governance from all stakeholders if the Forest is to flourish. The importance of New Forest fungi 15 Mycological expert Sara Cadbury considers the effects of 2020’s climatic oscillations on their ability to produce their fruiting bodies. Hatchet Pond: A special place 17 Forestry England’s Susan Smith outlines a plan for protecting this wildlife-rich water from the ravages of human activity. Donkeys through history 19 Equine vet, Marta Ferrari, explains how these equids – common on the New Forest – have served humans over time. Obituary: Graham Long 21 A “people person” who gave a great deal as Council Member and Newsletter Editor. FOREST MATTERS ABOUT US is the magazine of Founded in 1867 as the Friends of the New Forest. New Forest Association and Issue 9: Registered Charity No. 260328. Information about the Association Spring/Summer 2021 can be found on: www.friendsofthenewforest.org www.facebook.com/NewForestAssociation Views expressed in Forest Matters are not necessarily those of PATRON AND PRESIDENT Friends of the New Forest. Patron: Belinda Lady Montagu President: Professor Matthew Kelly Editor: Robert Whiting Please contact VICE PRESIDENTS the editor at [email protected] Oliver Crosthwaite Eyre with any contributions for or comments Peter Frost concerning this publication. OFFICERS The deadline for the Autumn/Winter Chair: John Ward 2021 issue is: 30 June 2021. Vice Chair: Gale Pettifer Hon Secretary: Tara Dempsey Hon Treasurer: Brandy Gill Unattributed photographs are understood to have been taken by TRUSTEES the author or submitted with the Bernie Austin, Tony Balch, Brian Tarnoff, photographer’s permission. William Ziegler Cover image: COUNCIL MEMBERS New Forest coastal marshes Clive Chatters, Jonathan Cox, Roly Errington, by Mary Godfroy Eve Gilmon, Keith Howe, David Humbert, Leo Randall, Richard Reeves, Neil Sanderson, Ann Sevier, Jenni Tubbs, Russell Wynn Design and layout by Philippa Firth PLANNING AND TRANSPORT COMMITTEE Tel: 07740 289 411 Chair: Bernie Austin email: [email protected] Printed by Document Despatch, Basingstoke, HABITAT AND LANDSCAPE COMMITTEE Hampshire Chair: Brian Tarnoff email: [email protected] www.documentdespatch.com ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP Copyright © 2021 Individual: £15 by direct debit (or £17 by Friends of The New Forest cheque) Registered Charity Joint: £25 by direct debit (or £29 by cheque) No. 260328 Join through our website or contact: Juliet Lynn (Membership) 14 Shrubbs Avenue Lymington, SO41 9DJ GENERAL ENQUIRIES By email: [email protected] By phone: John Ward: 01590 671205 Letter from our Chairman Spending too long “staying in” during Covid lockdowns, We can do our best to help with the knowledge gap by, one might be forgiven occasional moments of for example, explaining why a valley mire is a valuable reminiscence while pondering the knowledge and carbon sink, or by research such as providing trackers to numbers dilemma. study nesting curlews. A flat in an urban, un-posh part of London was my But what about numbers? Most visitors to the Forest childhood home. Outdoors was the street, or for more do not intend to do harm any more than I did as a adventure, nearby WW2 bomb sites. A school holiday schoolboy on a Welsh mountain (although some are took me aged 15 to Snowdonia and I returned with a wilfully bad or uncaring when they throw litter). But friend to climb mountains, finding rocky routes to the ultimately it is a numbers game. The Forest is too small top. The only clue that someone had been there before and too fragile to hold on to its special qualities and us was to spot a few scratches on the rock made by the meet ever-growing recreational demands. nailed boots everyone still wore then. Sometimes on the way back we would run down scree slopes in an exciting Rationing recreation? cascade of falling stones. Returning to my childhood, I grew up with ration books Returning today, the same route to the top is a made-up because there was not enough food and goods to stone path with steps where it is steep, in an attempt go round. How should we “ration” recreation today? to cope with the erosion of thousands of feet that have Persuade those whose activities could be met elsewhere followed. No danger of getting lost and probably plenty to do them elsewhere and also limit licences for activities of other people going the same way. The scree slopes on the Forest? Cut down on promotion attracting have gone, eroded back to bare earth and rock. I’m sure more visitors? Manage demand by charging – both to that many walkers enjoy their visit, but it is not the same persuade some to go elsewhere to a free alternative “away-from-it-all” adventure I was fortunate enough and to raise income for restoration of lost qualities? to experience. If I had been told about the erosion Restrict access, primarily through location and amount consequences of running down scree slopes that have of car parking? Have tougher byelaws and enforcement? taken centuries of weathering and freezing to create Persuade traffic to go around instead of through the and about their slow-growing flora that I failed even Forest and slow down the rest? And I’m sure there are to notice, would I have behaved differently? Not being many other possibilities. We do, of course, need to be able to return to my 15-year-old mind, I can’t say – but mindful of unintended consequences. This year we saw maybe. with concern how overfull car parks led to traffic parking on and destroying Forest verges (see page 9). Measures The inevitability of change that are experimental and reversible might be safer than those, which once done, remain fixed. Ten years on and still a young man, I wandered along the west coast of Africa beyond the Niger delta. Palm Any restrictive changes are likely to be met with tree-lined beaches with scattered villages and from resistance, from individuals and special-interest groups. time to time a group of fishermen furiously paddling We live increasingly in a culture of “It’s my right…”. a canoe out through the surf to open sea. Night time Change will not be easy. We look to the New Forest was not a blackout because the sky blazed with the public authorities to show leadership but, despite plenty Milky Way with no competition from artificial light. The of recent publications, it is hard to find a coherent only footprints in the sand and the only white faces coordinated strategy for the protection of the New were mine and those of my girlfriend. I can remember Forest coupled to recreation management and a tangible thinking that I was probably the thin edge of many more programme of practical implementation. future visitors, privileged to be ahead of that time. No It would be foolish of me to overstate what Friends of need to return – a simple internet search for holidays the New Forest might do to meet this challenge, but I shows much of the same coast transformed into beach hope that in the coming year, as the Forest’s friend and resorts with unending chains of “all mod-cons” hotels watchdog, we will do our best to move the New Forest together with a lit-up nightlife. More economic wealth public authorities to a willingness to grasp this difficult than fishing brought into the local community and still challenge a bit more firmly and accept and implement sun, sand and surf, but…. changes required to hang on to all of the Forest’s special What has this to do with the New Forest? Places, people, qualities, while also explaining this to visitors and local economies and cultures inevitably change. And global residents. populations, habitat destruction and climate change I am confident that we will continue to do our best to may well overtake us before we respond adequately, ensure at least that this small area does not become but we designate some places like the New Forest to try even smaller through development and changes of use to protect their “Special Qualities”: scarce habitats and away from those that are intrinsically part of a special wildlife ecosystems, rare landscape, particular cultural landscape. ways like Commoning, and an intangible feeling of tranquillity being in a place set apart from the urban hurly burly all around. John Ward Spring/Summer 2021 1 New Forest life, spanning all social classes for this period and details how the New Forest became what it is today. It provides a study of agricultural practices, which have remained virtually unchanged for NEWS centuries, and shows why they are NEW FOREST HERITAGE CENTRE: AN UPDATE an important part of preserving Chris Howard outlines recent The project was to add four times this precious landscape. It is an developments at this invaluable the amount of shelf space for inspirational testimony to how New Forest resource and the ever-expanding collections collective human effort to protect cultural hub. and create a study room in the the New Forest has worked and existing map-store area.
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