Wild Land News no 55, Spring 2002

SNH Considers Wild Land Policy Article

Scottish Natural Heritage's main board considered at its February meeting a draft statement on wild land. An earlier version of this statement was circulated to a selection of outdoor organisations including this Group. We were delighted to see SNH addressing this issue in a more formalised way and comments were sent in on various aspects of the topic.

SNH are still working on revising the draft statement in the light of their Board's comments, but it will be made public in due course, and we hope in probably the next issue of Wild Land News to have a major article on it. The covering paper for the draft statement can be seen on SNH's website, www.snh.org.uk, under Board Agenda papers for February 2002.

It is clear that what is special about Scotland for so many people is its wild land, and yet this is such a hard concept to define and defend at the administrative and legislative levels. The SNH paper is a welcome step in the right direction.

Alistair Cant