Farmers say the National Trust has damaged heathland on the Long Mynd.
The National Trust broke conservation rules over a new method of harvesting heather at a Shropshire beauty spot, the BBC has learned.
“It’s clear the damage here is severe and has been caused by harvesting heather seed. It’s going to take some years to recover,” said Tom Lloyd, secretary of the Longmynd Commoners’ Association. “We’re really disappointed that National Trust - Europe’s largest conservation body - has felt able to severely damage one area in pursuit of regeneration of another,” says Mr Lloyd, a fourth-generation hill farmer.
It said it did carry out some brush seed harvesting of wavy hair grass in September this year, which it also had not secured consent for.
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