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From Mar Lodge Estate
This conservation policy was maintained into the next century and following the creation of the Cairngorms National Park they were quite vocal in their advocacy of their minimal intervention policy. In 2004, John Mayhew, Head of Policy and Planning (National Trust for Scotland) chided the Cairngorms National Park Authority on their 'disappointingly complacent' draft-policy on vehicle hill-tracks among other 'misgivings' - further - John Mayhew writes : [we disagree] with the unsubstantiated assertion that ‘it is in the very nature of - estates that vehicular access tracks will be required up hillsides for operational and maintenance purposes’. There are many estates in Scotland, including some managed by the Trust, with few or no such tracks. This statement should therefore be deleted

- John Mayhew (NTS)

Adam Watson, and others, criticise the Mar Lodge Estate management for using machines in the plantations that are 'too large' for the soils of the plantations.