I am concerned about this, for all our sakes.
LDN or simply DMGs independent of LDN, how will it really work?
Know one knows, we have tried to draw SNH out on this one. On the whole I think it to is maintain the threat taht we will be sent in if you don't cull your own with no intention of following through.
Group control of the management of ever larger tracts of land? ... Who gets to shoot on that land and how?
Can never see this happening within the non-landholding DMG's. However ADMG's up north do this on a voluntary basis where large landowners pool resourses for economic gain. However noone is forced to join. Land is then managed for shooting/stalking lets. Stalking then organised by estate office or letting agent.(See Galgraith's stalking opportunities)
Will we all have to subscribe to A.N. Other and his/their "agreed" management policies before we can even take deer on our own land?
There will be no intervention on managed land as things stand. They may however check cull returns (mandatory) and cull should at least equal recommended cull return. Much the same as FCE lease where cull targets are given.
What might it cost us in future to do something that we have never had to pay for, or otherwise gain the permission of this "A.N. Other", in order to do in the past?
No price has been mentioned as far as I am aware. For what I gathered from the lawyer at the meeting he wasworried it would initially be a cutting of farm subsidies.
Will overarching corporate interest eventually take over the whole (pardon the pun) shooting match? ... and rob us blind?
That would be my greatest fear with the involvement of ADMG, highland model. With the introduction of pro-stalker status, qualifications for this and that, a lot of farmers will sign up for peace.
Or... possibly worse still, turn much of stalking over to some new "Vermin Control Industry".
dmg's should exist to prvent this.
I'm deeply suspicious of the entire concept and it's probable outcomes, as they appear to me, but you may have got that already...
With the lack of forward planing info we all are left to speculate. The above is my personal take having attended meetings open and closed but where information is very limited. I do believe the "Deer, roe in particular, are vermin" sits too high on the SNH agenda.
Please explain, especially if you think my comments are unfounded and my concern is baseless.
plesse note you have here my personal answers from gleaned knowledge. These opinions are my own and are not the product of pooled knowledge of any group. Jim