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Damaging and Illegal Activities Revealed in the New Forest

Recreation Committee
January 6th, 2022

1,100 reports of litter and dog mess 550 reports of cyclists away from designated tracks 500+ reports of cars parked on open forest verges away from car parks 50 reports of livesto...

2021 New Forest Byelaw Watch

Recreation Committee
September 18th, 2021

The 2022 Byelaw Watch is HERE The New Forest is in theory protected by byelaws that aim to conserve the forest, preserve its tranquillity, and regulate recreational use. However, t...

Background: Close The Campsites That Harm Habitat

Habitat & Landscape CommitteeRecreation Committee
July 21st, 2021

This article includes the Background Notes from our July 2021 Presentment calling for a review of the campsite infrastructure on the protected habitats of the Crown Lands, the clos...

Northern end of Hollands Wood camp site, New Forest August 2005 / Jim Champion / CC BY-SA 2.0

The Power of the Press?

Recreation Committee
October 19th, 2020

A Saturday article in the Daily Telegraph extolling walking in the New Forest and suggesting some Forest honeypots to visit, school half term, a dry, if not sunny, Sunday in Octobe...

Recreation Management and the Special Qualities of the New Forest

Recreation Committee
October 10th, 2020

Life in the Forest been very much a year of two different halves with Covid19. Initially with Lockdown in force the Forest was unusually quiet and undisturbed, with breeding wildli...

Chris Packham Pushes For Unicorn Rewilding in the New Forest

CommoningHabitat & Landscape CommitteeRecreation Committee
March 31st, 2019

This article originally appeared in the 1st April, 2019 edition of the Lymington Tomes / Miltonian Adverteaser and is reprinted without any regard to their permission. Miltonian Ad...

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: Adjusted Expectations

Habitat & Landscape CommitteeRecreation Committee
August 8th, 2018

Our Strategic (or perhaps less than) Approach to the RMS Review We welcomed the review of the National Park’s Recreation Management Strategy, the core policy document whose difficu...

Recreation Management: In A Nutshell

Habitat & Landscape CommitteeRecreation Committee
August 5th, 2018

Whilst we’re still formulating our detailed response to the Future Forest draft actions survey 2018, we’re sharing these preliminary thoughts. These observations will ...

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 ...

NFNPA Public Questions: Recreation Management Strategy

Habitat & Landscape CommitteeRecreation Committee
June 15th, 2018

We continue to welcome the opportunity presented by the review of the RMS, but are underwhelmed by the process and proposals. I wouldn’t belabour the deficiencies of last year’s on...

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