I HAVE been walking through Mount Pleasant Culvert and Friars Gorse for many years now and over the past month I have noticed the gradual destruction of this woodland.

Wondering why this woodland was being destroyed, I began to ask questions of fellow walkers. The only answers I got was that the trees where being cut down for pulp. I also wondered how the timber was being removed.

Now at last the mystery is revealed (Stourbridge News, May 10).

What was once a very nice piece of woodland has now been turned into an eyesore resembling the Brazilian rain forest.

I do hope that when Mr Whittingham has achieved his goal, he will clean up his mess, plant new sweet chestnuts and oak trees for future generations of wildlife and humans and put the wood back to its natural state.

Mr C Turner, Wollaston