I was thinking......... :-?
The Forestry Com have loads of woodland all over the country, and I understand that they want to focus more on people using it for recreation. Walking and cycling is allowed and on some woodland you can camp on designated areas.
Wouldn't it be good though if we. as a bushcraft community, could set up a partnership of some sort with the FC. A partnership that allowed us to use any of their woodland for bushcrafting, providing we could show them we had sufficent knowledge of the environment to minimise the impact of our presence there....some sort of accreditation done in conjunction with them that allows us access to areas where we currently shouldn't really be, if you followed the letter of the law to the enth degree.
The benefits would be good for both parties. We'd have somewhere to interact with the great outdoors, and they would have experienced and responsible people on site all year round. It could even be linked into the Local Volunteer schemes they run whereby we could help to maintain and manage the woodland with them.
I know that Bushcraft is to many a way of getting from everyday modern life, and it's a way to explore the world around us as well as own capabilites, but what better way to learn than in the local environment, legally, with help at hand and at the same time being able to put something back into the woodlands that we enjoy so much.
Does that make sense? It does in my head :-?
The Forestry Com have loads of woodland all over the country, and I understand that they want to focus more on people using it for recreation. Walking and cycling is allowed and on some woodland you can camp on designated areas.
Wouldn't it be good though if we. as a bushcraft community, could set up a partnership of some sort with the FC. A partnership that allowed us to use any of their woodland for bushcrafting, providing we could show them we had sufficent knowledge of the environment to minimise the impact of our presence there....some sort of accreditation done in conjunction with them that allows us access to areas where we currently shouldn't really be, if you followed the letter of the law to the enth degree.
The benefits would be good for both parties. We'd have somewhere to interact with the great outdoors, and they would have experienced and responsible people on site all year round. It could even be linked into the Local Volunteer schemes they run whereby we could help to maintain and manage the woodland with them.
I know that Bushcraft is to many a way of getting from everyday modern life, and it's a way to explore the world around us as well as own capabilites, but what better way to learn than in the local environment, legally, with help at hand and at the same time being able to put something back into the woodlands that we enjoy so much.
Does that make sense? It does in my head :-?
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