Something that I would like to investigate is the changing attitude towards deer management.
When I was starting out as a professional stalker in the early '90s the atmosphere seemed to be that we were turning a corner, the early pioneers (Prior, Courtier, GKW, Rose, Cubby, Speed, deNalik, Oakman et al) were geting older, we respected them but were ready to move forward. A lot of us aspired to work for the FC or RDC. Organisations like SNH, NT, RSPB, Woodland Trust leaned heavily towards conservation and preservation and tended to avoid the issue of deer management. Stag hunting was important locally.
My generation have now had twenty years of shooting more and more deer and advancing the standards in most areas (those of us that aspired to high standards that is, the cowboys are still cowboys) but rather than being complimented for this we are told we didn't do enough. Deer are now public enemy number one, its our fault that speeding motorists hit our deer on rural roads? Deer are considered as vermin now, ok, not technically but certainly by implication.
JC