"Brian" --- 'flayb' to respond wrote in message
...
GWR used to issue a green card that permitted approved botanising along
railway land. I can only remember that we were warned not to stand between
the rails when trains were coming! Very few cards were ever issued. Many
plants grew there that were missing or rare elsewhere.
Motorways look even more promising and I cannot believe the biology of
these verges is totally forbidden~ without some form of approved access to
somebody knowledgeable. Nowhere else is there land that remains ungrazed
and
undisturbed for such long periods.
Can anyone advise?
Best Wishes Brian.


You weren't listening to Radio 4's nature programme this evening were you? A
lot is being done to preserve native species on the verges and the
inaccessible triangles of land associated with the motorways and trunk
routes.

I can't believe though that they will start allowing people to go on them to
do a bit of gardening with the warning " don't run across the three lanes of
traffic to get to the central reservation in the rush hour"

Steve