Bog Woodland

For about a couple of decades or maybe more now the forestry types have been engaged in reinstating areas of bog woodland lost to drainage during the admiralty years. The straight drains and straightened streams which were for the most part the norm in the forest when I was growing up have been remodeled and where possible returned to their earlier meandering courses. This work has begun to change the face and nature of some areas of the forest. Areas which would only have been wet during the winter are now commonly wet throughout the year and other areas which were never usually wet are now seasonally impassible; the nature of the low parts of the forest landscape are changing. Though, I'm increasingly conflicted about conservation and the more I read the wider my concerns become. What's it all about?  The species selected for conservation or the period in which we set any selected landscape in aspic, appear arbitrary, as therefore are those species we don't conserve; it's certainly not returning said landscape to its natural state. No, it's almost landscape reenactment... just choose historical period. But who chooses and what's the criteria? Rewilding's the direction we need to move in and then allow nature to find her equilibrium