Stuart Brooks, chief executive of the John Muir Trust conservation charity,which brought the petition, was left promising to fight another day, claimingthat full protection for so-called wild land was an idea that would soon haveits day.

This battle aside, Brooks and his supporters certainlyappear to have been winning the war in Scotland lately. Look no furtherthan the unexpected proposals for onshore wind contained in the new draftnational planning framework.

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