people top roping on the Ash Pit Slabs area.
Quote from: GCW on July 13, 2010, 11:00:43 ampeople top roping on the Ash Pit Slabs area. WTF? top roping at Brownstones... unbelievable!{goes off to search for said photos}
"The Lancashire Wildlife Trust in partnership with Bolton Council has recently started developing management plans for Brownstones Quarry and Ousels Nest Quarry with the hope of designating them as Local Nature Reserves. This means that the sites will be managed for both the improvement of wildlife and users. We are currently conducting community consultation to determine what the sites are used for and what users of the sites value the most. Climbing is obviously one of the main uses at Brownstones and the trust is keen to involve climber’s as much as possible (i.e. guiding management, involvement in friends of groups, engaging more people in involvement with the site, and practical work etc). Anyone interested in having a say can contact Stephen on 01204 663754 or scartwright@lancswt.org.uk. I would greatly appreciate it if you could pass this message around as much as possible! We need all the support we can get to have the site designated, in the short term this would mean developing the management plan and small practical jobs like removing scrub from the quarry face but in the long term projects like access improvements etc could be possible. I have been told that a climbing group meets at Brownstones regularly and I wondered if you know anything about this? Thank you very much.Stephen Cartwright.Assistant LNR Project Officer.Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside."
im sure ive mentioned it before but can someone not keep a couple of goats in there to eat all the rampant vegetation. clean top outs and less nettles. goats eat owt.