On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 16:15:24 +0100, newshound
wrote:

On 27/08/2020 15:29, T i m wrote:
On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 13:39:59 -0000 (UTC), Jethro_uk
wrote:

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My biggest bugbear - irrespective of power source - is stopping to empty
the grass box every 2 passes of the lawn.

Something I belive may be close to your heart, I see they are setting
pigs loose in areas of the country that were originally 'managed' by
such animals in any case, because it's easier and more productive at
returning the habituate to what was good and supported good diversity
than anything we can do manually (or afford to do manually). ;-)

In the same way fallen trees or stuff that might be cleared is often
left to provide habitat etc.

Cheers, T i m

Wild boar are not so welcome not far away from me in the Forest of Dean.

No, so I understand, digging up lawns and the like?

However, maybe that should be how it is, they were probably here
before we were, like the elephants roaming though farms in Africa when
they have done so for millions of years before 'man' stuck himself in
the way. ;-(

That's real nature, not what we think it should be pruned into. ;-(

The funny thing is, we are at last realising what needs to be done and
going back to planting wild meadows, allowing margins and passageways
for wild animals etc ... like we had the right to take them away in
the first place.

The stupidity of it all is we are doing it all at our own cost, with
floods etc where previously the likes of beaver would have applied
some management of / to wetlands and flood planes.

Cheers, T i m