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The problem with allowing 'for personal consumption' is policing it. I have seen people taking carrier bags full which they will claim is for their own use, of things like wild garlic and chestnuts, but which will almost certainly end up being used commercially.
Sorry JP, but as someone who works in the countryside, I know the only way is to try to stop all picking.
I agree the New Forest is a unique habitat, and most of it isn't wooded. We have less woodland that most countries, but we also have a far higher population per unit of land, and it is probable that it has been less wooded for centuries. There is more woodland now that there has been for a couple of centuries, but keeping ancient woodland, moorland and heathland is more important than planting new. |
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