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Jul 9 2017, 07:07 PM
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-40547691So some bright spark has decided that our beloved Lake District should be given UNESCO status. Now I am all for conservation but history shows us that when we place these things in the hands of people who live miles away then it is a recipe for disaster, ( a bit like the pricks in Westminster ). Most people only visit the lakes in summer but it is a landscape forged by millenniums of weather, ( usually VERY wet ), hill farming and a singular lack of human intervention. I do like the passing reference to Stonehenge and, as anyone who has had the misfortune to drive down that way of late will testify, what a pig's ear they have achieved with that.
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Jul 10 2017, 05:14 PM
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QUOTE (SirWilliam @ Jul 9 2017, 08:07 PM) ![*](style_images/NWN/post_snapback.gif) Now I am all for conservation but history shows us that when we place these things in the hands of people who live miles away then it is a recipe for disaster, ( a bit like the pricks in Westminster ). Most people only visit the lakes in summer but it is a landscape forged by millenniums of weather, ( usually VERY wet ), hill farming and a singular lack of human intervention. If I remember my O'level geography right, the Lake District is a landscape forged by glaciation rather than weather as such. Do you have specific examples of "these things" that have ended in disaster at the "hands of people who live miles away"?
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Jul 10 2017, 06:56 PM
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QUOTE (Simon Kirby @ Jul 10 2017, 05:14 PM) ![*](style_images/NWN/post_snapback.gif) If I remember my O'level geography right, the Lake District is a landscape forged by glaciation rather than weather as such. And water erosion, and frost erosion, oh and copper mining, lots n lots of that!
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Jul 10 2017, 07:13 PM
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QUOTE (je suis Charlie @ Jul 10 2017, 07:56 PM) ![*](style_images/NWN/post_snapback.gif) And water erosion, and frost erosion, oh and copper mining, lots n lots of that! No, the landscape is basically glacial with U-shaped valleys.
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