Do you read ECOS? The journal of the British Association of Nature Conservationists (BANC)See here my essays on nature conservation published in ECOS over the years Download: pdf, 110 pages, 1.39mbThe Search for the Countryside (1983)Even More About the Purpose of Nature Conservation (1984)Letter (1982)Alien Or Native (1986)Beyond the Faustian Bargain (1987)Animal Rights (1987) by Ian S CoghillAnimal (and Other) Rights (1987)The Ecology of Environmentalism: Some Ideas for Discussion (1987)Democracy and Habitat Protection (1989)Wildlife Valuation (1992)What is Natural? A Reply (2006) by MikeTownsend25 Years of Change in Wester Ross (1994)Out of Site, Out of Mind? (1996)Wild Land or Wilderness – Is There a Difference? (1996)Political Correctness Strikes Ecology (1996)Scotland: Reviving the Wild (1999)A New Paradigm for the Uplands (2004)Wild Thoughts Followed Up (2004)What is Natural? (2006)What is Natural? A Reply (2006) by MikeTownsend
SHORT STORIESCYCADS (1995)DAS LIED VERLOREN (1997)MODERN MAN (1996)OBSESSIONS (2000)RETURN TO WINDY STANDARD (1991)A WALK (1983)HENDERSON (c.2001)A SHORT LIFE (c.1998) 54 pagesDownload .pdf file 289kb
Published essays 2013-2017Choppy seas ahead for our fisherman The Scotsman 13 July 2018Price of woods culturally costly The Scotsman 25 May 2017Should Scotland be like Norway? The Scottish Gamekeeper May 2016Moorland: why do we want it and where? The Scottish Gamekeeper April 2015Hunting, shooting, saving our moors Sunday Herald Essay 11 August 2014The deer-forest divide The Shooting Times 14 November 2013The dark side of the woods Sunday Herald Essay 27 October 2013
Unpublished essaysAre gardeners irresponsible? 2017A story of woodland 2015An essay on human nature 2015Landscapes of the imagination 2014Upland sheep farming and the environment 2013Countryside as garden 2013Download all these essays. pdf 44 pages 838kb