MANY letters are published from interest groups as to the best way to retain Dartmoor as an asset of the West Country.

These range from ban the military, save the tin huts, overgrazing, ban the walkers, etc, etc.

If these groups opened their eyes they would see that the greatest danger to the moor is the rapid spread of gorse.

Large areas that look quite open now are covered with little yellow flowers or young gorse. Take your boots off and try it.

Several walks which were open land ten years ago are now 12-inch tracks, in five years' time there will be no walking or grazing in these places.

Unless action is taken the future for Dartmoor is one great area of scrub, gorse, and bracken unfit for human or animal and certainly not for the tourist.

Michael Johnson

Rumleigh Gardens

Rumleigh

Bere Alston