Dear all,
here as promised is a brief update of todays meeting.
Those who attended were John Walker, Geoff Williams, Mike Surr, Dave Bromwich, Keith Robinson, myself, Dave Wright, Teri (whom i have forgotten the second name ) sorry, but she was a lady i can remember that much, Mike Drew and his local engineer in charge of site plant etc.
I want to thank everyone personally for coming to what was i am sure you would all agree was an extremely constructive, pleasant and infomative meeting which can hold rich promise for the future. The conservation of habitat, sensitive areas that needed to be managed for butterfly's and their food plants, orchids etc were all taken on board by the locol site man who was not only keen to do the right thing but wants to be seen to be doing so.
Mike made emphesis several times to the fact the reservoir is basically for leisure activities but promised to remark the wildlife area on the res walls and have discussions with the boating people about respecting the area and to make users more aware of the sensitive wildfowl area.
Mike promised to draw up an action plan and distribute it to the appropiate people for comments and i will post the summary of the document on arrival.
If all we discussed comes to fruition it will be a gigantic leap forward, if only 50% happens it is still a major shift in the direction of conservation.
Nothing will be obvious this calender year but i think from March 09 a new site maintenance policy is likely to be in place, cutting procedures, rotational policy, grazing etc etc.
All positive stuff, no negatives and for the items above positive guidance came from Dave Wright, John Walker and Dave Bromwich but Keith with his records he provided for Mike and everyone else contributed to the very excellent meeting.
Once again many many thanks to all concerned and i will keep in touch and let everyone in the
L B C up to date with news.
P S any comments or news from anyone else who can have a positive input will be welcome to reply because no single person has a monopoly on brains, cheers,
Terry Whalin
