Reader's Blog: Pining for a rural idyll to encourage countryside explorers
Pine trees grow quickly in our climate and can be profitable for some farmers but on the other hand they can prevent natural plants and wild life from thriving under their dense shade. But an upside of these dark pine woods is that they could potentially provide ideal spaces to construct high covered track ways for countryside explorers to walk discreetly through lawfully protected, privately-owned farm land.
By this way countryside explorers would not have to fear that they could bother farm owners and in turn farm owners likewise would not have to bother being concerned with explorers either. These explorers could also walk safe and dry in the countryside not just like as often happens in our high summer-tourist season but also remain dry during the worst weather conditions during winter, off-season time.
Tourists before they arrive out into the open to enjoy the sights of great but previously unpublicised hill-top views, might take rest-stops on the long “tunnel” journeys. Such breaks might be a chance to explore in small secluded wild flower gardens which the farmers/owners could grow with the aid of eco-friendly types of grants.
If such covered tunnels were high enough they could provide sufficient air and light for everybody who uses them. Cameras and camera phones with the help of well-placed security personnel might provide full accounts of all tunnel users and so ensure complete safety too. Such security personnel having medical training could when needed help tired walkers find suitable places to rest or sleep.
Maybe in the future too shops selling travelling provisions might become established within these potentially “nationwide” covered tunnels? Perhaps too from out of this situation new types of long towns might grow so as to co-exist in a quiet and eco-friendly way beside rural farms.
