Fwd: Sherwood / Forest of Dean / Other Forests Under Threat

[Mark Barrett]

'The enemies of wood," Roger Deakin wrote in
Wildwood,<http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/jul/15/scienceandnature.features>"are
always the enemies of humanity." I've been thinking of Deakin a lot
since news surfaced of the coalition's plan to sell all of the Forestry
Commission <http://www.forestry.gov.uk/>'s English land. What would Deakin,
that planter of pips, that weaver of
ash<http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/sep/16/featuresreviews.guardianreview14>,
have made of this grand arboreal auction? And I've been thinking, too,
of something WH Auden once
wrote<http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2010/04/culture-is-no-better-than-its-woods.html>:
"A culture is no better than its woods."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/05/forestry-commission-sale-protest-laura-barton

Here is a map of all the forests in the UK threatened with
privatisation (taken from 38 degrees campaign website):

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=108710524048595933746.0004966ac0873c8a36ed6&ll=52.873434,-1.608467&spn=4.787501,6.102218&source=embed

"At the rally today more than 3,000 people, backed by celebrities,
bishops, leading conservationists and politicians, pledged to defend
"the people's" trees from what they fear will be a corporate land
grab."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/03/forest-of-dean-protesters-woodland
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