The other day I was 'raided' at home by a team consisted of the
=91community beat officer=92, (who is, it has to be said, a bit of creep),
the wildlife cop with the Countryside Council for Wales (CCW), and 2
film crew from the BBC in Cardiff. My crime? removing a rucksack of
conifer trees from the adjacent Forestry Commission estate on Mynydd
Llwydiarth mountain...which has about 600 acres of conifers.
Sqirrelman (Craig Shuttleworth, of the Anglesey Red Squirrel
project) ) thinks he knows what is better for a native animal than
Mother nature. He thinks that red squirrels do better with conifers
rather than the native greenwood. (broadleaves).
In place of the confiers planted by Squirrelman (along with teams of
disabled Romanian ophans), I planted sweet chestnuts, cob nuts (edible
hazelnuts), peacans, hickories, hicans (cross between hickories and
pecans), Quercus ilex ballota (southern European edible oaks), plus
various others. These were planted both as small trees and nutseed
(that had been tainted with creosote in order to prevent predation of
the seed). Squirrelman was doing his absolute best to try get me
fitted up as some sort of egg thief type anti widllife criminal.
(saying that I'd disturbed a protected animals habitat). Fortunately
the CCW cop was sound and by the end of the interview seemed genuinely
sup****tive of what I was saying and had done. They dropped the
potential charges relating to wildlife protection. The guy
(Squirrelman, is not only a scurellous **** (various other plays the
creep has made are both very dirty and basically so out of order that
his mates need to sort the headcase out please), but also a bad
scientist! He failed to anticipate that a population (the Mynydd
Lwydiarth squirrels) originating from one breeding female would suffer
from genetic related problems down the line. This is what has happened
of course, and then, just a few weeks ago, it was discovered that a
deadly squirrels pox had infected the population).
The location of the site I planted with nut trees is SH 542790 (on the
Anglesey Landranger map). Who on earth am I to say to any local people
not to go out there and make sure that your children, and the native
animals,have a source of healthy food from what is in reality YOUR
LAND. (Public forest) by weeding out the conifers that the lunatic
Shuttleworth sees fit to keep on planting there. I wouldn=92t be so
egotistical =96 unlike =91Dr=92 Craig Shuttleworth, the head game playing
drug abusing middle class new age nazi of a psuedo scientist.
The nut trees planted there do well in warm summers, and so should be
fruitful in a global warming scenario. (which is inevitable if a
miracle does not happen).
Thanks,
Jim
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