I AM writing to support Richard Chamings' views (Your Letters, February 28) regarding the management of Castlemorton Common and the Hills.

The Malvern Hills are a natural phenomena. They are not an ancient human construction needing repair and renovation.

They have existed for millennia. Man and his domestic animals, in comparison, are newcomers. From pre-historic peoples through the monasteries and the Royal Chase to the Victorians, the Hills have changed and evolved.

The Victorians tried to tame the landscape so the aristocracy and the new rich, in pursuit of health and the Gothic vision, could climb and walk easily.

The Hills have changed and will continue to do so. Global warming will add another dimension. Trees are returning, as are old plants mixing with new. There are more bluebells, violets, wild strawberries, honeysuckle and many others. At least the Conservators no longer strip the path verges during the main flowering season.

We should rejoice, celebrate and enable the Hills to evolve and change, to value what is happening.

Flocks of sheep and herds of cattle to keep down the 'scrub', young trees and plants is an artificial and retrogressive action. We are not Victorians. We are in the 21st Century and, with more knowledge of ecology, should be appreciating that nature will and does reincarnate itself and respond to its own needs. Please forget the dried arrangement in its glass dome or the preservative use of aspic and watch, enjoy and nurture this remarkable landscape.

VICTORIA NEWMAN, Wells Road, Malvern.