Talk:The National Forest (England)

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Can someone fix the dreadful English?[edit]

Please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.68.94.86 (talk) 08:27, 14 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ownership?[edit]

As far as I could tell from the website the National Forest Company is a private company and neither it nor the government owns the land in this forest. Is that correct? Rmhermen 16:54, Feb 9, 2004 (UTC)

The land in the forest is all privately owned but the land owners are encouraged and given grants to plant trees. It would be impossible for the government or a private company to own the land as there are many villages and towns accross the area aswell as farms. (this is also one of the big differences between US and UK National Parks where UK government agencies only act as planning authorities to protect parks, but do not own any of the land)--Cap 12:59, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The picture does not seem to have any significant connection with the National Forest...

There is a very good photo on the geograph website http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/89395 which would be more relevant as it shows the Conkers discovery centre surrounded by newly planted woodland. I have now uploaded this to the article --Cap 20:00, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Land usage[edit]

Can anybody throw any more light on the economics involved? Much of this was prime agricultural land, and particularly after Labour came to power in 1997 I can see the government having a hard time convincing farmers that it was concerned about their welfare. MarkMLl (talk) 20:43, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It would be useful indeed to have third party statistics on the area, but first we'd need to determine its exact boundaries. On https://www.globalforestwatch.org/map/country/GBR/1/51 for instance we see that «From 2001 to 2018, Leicestershire lost 258ha of tree cover, equivalent to a 2.3% decrease in tree cover since 2000». It's hard to find, on the map, any area where the forest canopy is meaningfully increasing, except some spots in Burton-on-Trent, Swadlincote, Ashby de la Zouch and Coalville. Presumably these are the areas saved from sheep grazing. Nemo 14:24, 16 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

History?[edit]

Knowing very little about the National Forest, what I would like to see here as visitor to this page is some explanation of how it came about, what planning went into it, when was the idea germinated, how long did it take to come about? At the minute there's none of this. I would do it myself but as I said I'm no expert and I have a million projects on the go. If someone could add this information, maybe under a History or Development section that'd be most appreciated. Kaleeyed (talk) 23:19, 1 April 2012 (UTC) And actually having looked all this information is on the official National Forest website and could easily be inserted here.Kaleeyed (talk) 23:20, 1 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]