CMA Publications

Ranger Magazine
The magazine of the Countryside Management Association

Ranger magazine is the leading publication for countryside management professionals. Published three or four times per year, it is free to CMA members, and is an authoritative and long-established voice for the industry. All members are welcome to contribute, and each issue features a range of new and regular contributors working in a variety of roles in all parts of the country. Typical features could include news of practical developments,forthcoming legislation, international affairs, equipment, reports of events and conferences, and invariably the usual wide range of ideas and projects from CMA members. Ranger magazine is an enjoyable and interesting way to network with other professionals and to get ideas about managing the countryside and urban greenspace.

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How to use this archive

Magazines are indexed by a picture of the cover page and the issue number and date. Most recent magazines are at the top of this page, older ones further down. Articles which are available on-line can be read by clicking on the link (where appropriate).

This is an archive so the most up-to-date issue is available to members, and will be archived here in due course (usually shortly before the next edition is published). For this reason, don't rely on the contact details in these documents as usually they are out-of-date.

Note: this index is incomplete, and indeed is likely never to be entirely complete. The full text of all available articles is given on this website, but many remain unavailable online. As more authors submit their original text it will be uploaded. If you are a former (or current) Ranger author, please send us any text and images you have in computer format so it can go into the archive.

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Ranger magazine is designed and produced by Dave Hollis at Wild Scape

	Ranger 85: Summer 2008 Climate change special edition
	Ranger 84: Spring 2008

	Ranger 83: Winter 2007/8 Contents Editorial Bean pole week Creating a cultural landscape Epping Forest tree hunt Filcris boards - product review Flat Holm Kent Downs land managers' pack Paws on the Moors Strategic planning feature
	Ranger 82: Autumn 2007 Download full PDF issue (11Mb)
	Ranger 81: Summer 2007
	Ranger 80: Spring 2007 Contents Editorial Canada Goose control Crassula control CSV Media Clubhouse Dartmoor ponies Farm wildlife: Horsewise Green Flag awards Review: Kilworth Valiant tractor The Thin Green Line Wildfire 2007 Promoting and sharing good practice in wildfire management The future's bright with modern apprentices: Oldham Council turns young blood into home grown talent
	Ranger 79: Winter 2007 Contents About Natural England Archaeological survey of the Quantock Hills AONB Countryside Careers (Niall Carson) Filming at Black Park Country Park Fisher's Estuarine Moth Seeds of the Harvest Thoughts from an angry park ranger Tree for all campaign When conservation means business

	Ranger 78: Autumn 2006 Contents IRF 5th World Ranger Congress 5th World Ranger Congress Diary Caremoor for Exmoor Chainsaw Milling CMA Study Day at Crickley Hill Country Park: Grazing Animals Project Flytipping Police and PSCO partnership Book review: Sandlands - the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Walkers with dogs: using psychology to improve management
	Ranger 77: Summer 2006 Contents Civicus world assembly Editorial A history of rangering in Scotland I was there - mostly (Mike Marshall) IRF past present and... Precious peat Rangers in Tatra National Park (Slovakia) A world in crisis 10 years of Icelandic exchanges
	Ranger 76: Spring 2006 Contents Boscastle 2 years on Costing out country parks: the Essex experience Raising standards, pilot study for Country Parks Dartmoor Environmental Education Defence estates Editorial Letter to the editor Lincolnshire chalk streams The Hadleigh maize maze Peak rangers get recognition Southwest Lakes Trust Off your trolley!

	Ranger 75: Winter 2005 Contents Daventry Community Garden Project Dogs take the lead on access Postcard from Papuk Working with Volunteers – Breaking the Mould! The Youth Ranger Project - Broads Style
	Ranger 74: Autumn 2005 Contents Tree Wardens Ticks Pathfinding Access Initiatives - Peddars Way Bonsey’s Common: conservation in the fast lane Global round-up Flora locale -go native! The CMA held its first Seminar for Corporate members and senior officers at Losehill Hall in April 2005 The Biophilia Hypothesis: How green spaces can improve the nations’ health US National Park Service
	Ranger 73: Summer 2005 Contents CMA and Losehill Hall sign new Memorandum of Agreement Sustrans - Cycling Rangers work in tandem Environmental Stewardship An interpreter's top tips for evaluating self-guided walks Countryside Management at Hadlow College Invest in YOUR people Why declare a Local Nature Reserve? Art and the Environment – Making the Mix work The Parish Paths Stewardship Scheme Use of countryside sites for Film and TV location shoots
	Ranger 72: Spring 2005 Contents All that glisters is not green CEI Caerlaverock Countryside Exchange Culture in Tees Forest Great North forest From coals to voles North York Moors Junior Rangers Landscape Character Assessment

	Ranger 71: Autumn 2004 Contents Improving Countryside Access Biomass at Losehill Hall - or 'Chips with Everything!' The Qualifications Jungle
	Ranger 70: Summer 2004 Contents International Work Exchanges: have you got what it takes? Ian Brooker; Senior Ranger; Dartmoor National Park, undertook a nine month work exchange with a Senior Warden from Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland, Canada. Climate Change and Carbon Dioxide Sequestration Joanna Ruth Lang: Obituary Junior Ranger Conference Report Picture mobile phone comparison Solar Powered Pay and Display Machines: Following discussions on the CMA egroup on member’s experience with solar-powered Pay & Display machines, Simon Heney of Durham County Council offered this experience from his council.
	Ranger 69: Spring 2004 Contents Break Free -a revelation in countryside interpretation Brash disposal My African Experience: Scott Walker writes Superior Islands - Roger Cole reports on the Apostle Islands Report on the TOPAS Foundation Ranger Training Oct 2003, Austria SSSIs - fighting fit? PDF file (36kB) Forest of Avon Waymarkers Ranger success at the World Parks Congress September 2003 Bringing cattle back to East London PDF file (25kB) Health and Safety Matters


	Ranger 64: Summer 2002 Contents Possums, stags and gliders: with Earthwatch in the forests of Victoria, Australia Environmental Art Pt 2 The Jurassic Coast Public Access and Recreation on the MOD Estate Interpreting Our World - interpretation from the designer's point of view GPS and the Countryside Manager Stanton Park - New from the Old Health and Safety Matters
	Ranger 63: Spring 2002 Contents Lazy Dogs Naturenet A Walk in the Woods Access

	Ranger 59: Winter 2000/2001 Contents Helicopter Operations in Land Management: David Boyden The European Ranger Project: Nikki Wright The Aqua Vitae 21 Project: Worcestershire's unique pond heritage: Rachel Datlen The Tottenham Marshes Project: Roger Cole & Dave Perkins Art in the Park - "Let us Spray": Gary Brentnall PROW in the 21st Century: exeGesIS SDM Ltd (?) Book Review -The English Landscape (The Countryside Agency 2000)
	Ranger 58: Summer 2000 Contents Biodiversity Action: Hugh Firman Education for Sustainable Development", the new mantra, is it for real?: Jon Cree There must be a catch? Phil Evans, the Kitch Catch Co. Ltd Eden Benchmarks: Dick Capel Countryside Services and the Local Heritage Initiative: Andy Maginnis WIs meet the Millennium Challenge: Irene Ralph Aircrash on a National Nature Reserve: Vicki Forbes, Hatfield Forest NNR Health & Safety Matters: Emma Corser