As a result, forest real estate now sells for rock-bottom prices, and many plots have been abandoned by absentee or aged owners and have fallen into a state of neglect.

因此，现在森林地产以最低的价格出售，而且很多小的地块被外地或年长的业主所抛弃，从而已经落入了无人问津的状态。

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The estate is an "end of the road property", bordering forest lands and commanding spectacular views.

庄园是道路的端头，界定森林以及拥有壮观的景色。

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The forest provides a wood crop that helps pay the costs of operating the estate.

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Create of a charter, and public forest estate should be "held in trust for the nation".

BBC: Public forests must not be sold, say advisers

Ms Spelman said it was under Labour that public forest estate was sold without any guarantee that public access rights would be protected.

BBC: Government urged to rethink forest sell off plan

Campaigner Hen Anderson, co-founder of Save our Woods, said the only group that had been adamant that the nation's forest estate should remain publicly owned was the public itself.

BBC: Public forests must not be sold, say advisers