The Doddington test: is England open for new forest creation?

摘要

It's a bitingly cold early spring day on a Northumberland hillside. A man and a woman are leaning on the bonnet of a car, poring over a sheaf of papers, including a series of multicoloured maps.The man is Andy Howard, the driving force behind the proposed forest at Doddington North Moor, which could become the largest productive planting site in England for two decades.