Deer A God Like Species??

[bambislayer]

Bambislayer can you tell me how many landowners have been taken to court and made pay for reducing numbers of deer ?. I think sometimes the reduction of red deer was the prefared option because it met with the paying fields of the Deer sector call me synical if you like but if you look at costs against effectivness you will see a furcking big hole in the fianances of public sector (TAX PAYER).

jmho and my last post on this because it gets on my tit,s

No one has been taken to court as far as I know but section 7's have been issued and if the owners did not act they would have been, or at least given the bill. Kinveachy & Glenfeshie culls were financed by the owners, the said estates can under SRDP [the same as any other land manager] claim for some money to cover costs but this is a small % of total cost in my experience

If you were fencing of large areas such as Glen Feshie, Mar Lodge, Kinveachy these are wintering grounds, the deer inside should be shot , not displaced. Unless an area has been designated for them.

 

[Salmo Salar]

As I said previously the numbers of deer on these estates did not happen magically overnight. So when it was seen to be the right thing to cull for the sake of regen or grants... the areas to be used should have been fenced off. The displaced deer then controlled in a far more sympathetic manner rather than the slaughter that happened.
None of the estates you mentioned are exactly short of ground that this couldn't have happened on. Kinveachy = 54,000acres, Mar Lodge 72500acres and Glenfeshie 42000acres. Yes it was there wintering ground but not for the entire population of deer on the place. Now though with no fences the regen area will always draw the deer in for them only to be exterminated as a pest.