Sheep keep the Lakes landscape looking trim

SIR – Before Lord Goldsmith calls for bison to replace cattle on the uplands (Leading Article, June 28), he should get himself to the Lake District, where it is undergrazing by sheep (not overgrazing) that is the problem, particularly on the open High Fells.

Misguided financial incentives from

Natural England have resulted in the decimation of hill flocks. As a result, bracken and gorse are proliferating and risk destroying this magnificent, Unesco World Heritage-designated landscape. Miles MacInnes Pooley Bridge, Cumbria