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FIRE AT BRATLEY/BACKLEY/A31 AUGUST 2026
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August 17th, 2026

An article by Clive Chatters in response to the fire.

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New Forest Ponies – a breed apart
Suzanne Kemp has lived in the New Forest for the last thirty years, is a practising first generation Commoner, and has judged ponies in Finland and Sweden as well as the UK, she al...

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Rewilding The New Forest?

CommoningHabitat & Landscape Committee
February 25th, 2019

The growl of a large grizzly bear filled the hall at Lyndhurst Community Centre and the audience of two hundred people gasped. As curtains drew back and they were confronted with a...

Recreation Management: What We Should Keep and Add

Habitat & Landscape CommitteeRecreation Committee
August 11th, 2018

The 2018 RMS Survey Proposals drop important Actions from the Current Recreation Management Strategy 2010-2030. We discuss what we’d want kept, and propose other useful key p...

Recreation Management: Evaluated Actions

Habitat & Landscape CommitteeRecreation Committee
August 11th, 2018

Detailed Response To the Draft Actions The 2018 survey proposals consider 25 “Actions” spread over 7 “Objectives”. For the most part these are bland stateme...

Recreation Management: Summary of Our 2017 Response

Habitat & Landscape CommitteeRecreation Committee
June 25th, 2018

A summary comparison of our 2017 response to the draft “Actions” proposed by NFNPA in the 2018 survey. For last year’s Future Forest survey, we sidestepped the survey ...

NFA President’s Report 2017-18

Recreation Committee
April 16th, 2018

Our President, Oliver Crosthwaite Eyre sets our work in big picture context, Brexit, the 25 Year Environment Plan, Recreation Management Strategy and Local Plans. Last of our seri...

NFA Habitat and Landscape 2017-18

Habitat & Landscape CommitteePlanning & Transport CommitteeRecreation Committee
April 15th, 2018

Habitat and Landscape Chair, Brian Tarnoff reviews with uncharacteristic brevity the past year on the Forest Design Plan, Recreation Management Strategy and the England Coast Path....

NFA Planning and Transport 2017-18

Planning & Transport CommitteeRecreation Committee
April 14th, 2018

Here Planning and Transport Chair, Graham Baker weighs in, with some frustrations, over the past year, full of mounting concerns of increased pressure on the Forest. Part of our se...

NFA Council and Trustees 2017-18

Planning & Transport CommitteeRecreation Committee
April 11th, 2018

With our AGM fast approaching on Saturday 21st April 2018, this and next week we’ll feature our annual reports. NFA Chair John Ward reports on the work of our council and tru...

DEVELOPMENT THREAT TO THE NEW FOREST

Planning & Transport Committee
February 23rd, 2018

DEVELOPMENT THREAT TO THE NEW FOREST – URGENT Please help us to help the New Forest. Your action is needed now! Friends of the New Forest (New Forest Association) is urging our mem...

Recreation Management Strategy and Solent Recreation Mitigation Partnership Strategy

Habitat & Landscape CommitteeRecreation Committee
January 18th, 2018

Our representation to Public Questions from the January meeting of the New Forest National Park Authority. We point out flaws in the draft interpretation of last years Recreation M...

Friends of the New Forest host national conference

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October 21st, 2017

National Parks Societies Conference 2017 The Friends of the New Forest recently hosted a three-day national conference at Balmer Lawn Hotel, Brockenhurst, which was attended by rep...

Recreation Management Strategy Survey Response

Habitat & Landscape CommitteeRecreation Committee
August 9th, 2017

Our response to the Future Forest RMS Survey launched by the New Forest National Park Authority. We call for priority projects to address outdated infrastructure, boost regard for...

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