How come it's not treated like fly-posting or graffiti? They haven't asked permission to put up flags or paint public property. I personally think calling it hate crime is going too far.

Is that democracy? Aren't there constitutional rights that this runs contrary to?

Sadly not. It was early days in terms of recording for me and I had no idea it was unusual for that area. I remember it because my tutor had casually looked at it from a distance and called it Hard Fern but I could tell it clearly wasn't. It was the first time I'd corrected my tutor

I remember finding it there (in the mouth of the Devil's Kitchen) during a University Field meeting in about 1992

Thanks! I looked in and around that small car park area but couldn't see it there. Just distracting bits of Veronica serp.
I'll take another look when I'm that way and have more time

I took a very quick look near the cattle grid on my way home but sadly didn't see it.

Perfect excuse to move to electric vehicles, heat pump and battery technology. Let's make that a stranded asset

Great, but disturbing, article here on just that: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It will be a stranded asset. We have reached peak oil.

So biochar in paddy fields is a bad thing as it increases methane production?