I own the lease next door to this man. He is not over popular in the local area. This is just one issue, the introduction of Wolves and other exotic creatures in his reintroduction scheme.
The estate used to be one of the premier estates in the area for Red Stalking, I should know I used there larder for my deer, which was another lease bordering his property. Their cull was 100 Stags and nearly 300 hinds off about 23000 acres. The deer numbers are not anywhere near that now.
Moose I have hunted and shot in Finland, and they prefer dense forest, with a great deal of space. There is no forest of any consequence on Alladale Estate, and in some areas there never where. I have also stalked it on a number of occassions, and it is unfenced. To fence it off would cost a fortune, and would defeat the object of re introduction of any wild animal as it will wander off the ground. This has been the cause of some problems I believe with the neighbouring estates, their feeder stags being culled to take the numbers down on Alladale, has not prooved popular.
Bear, Wolves, Moose belong in the past, you need huge areas to keep them on. AND as I have said before 23000 acres is not anywhere near enough for a pack of Wolves. As for aquiring more land the 4 neighbouring estates are not to my knowledge interested, apart from may be one, and that is not my place. But even then it is doubtful they would sell. There are programmes such as the re generation of the Caledonian Forest, Capercaille, Black Grouse and Red Kite that could be better supported, than trying to create a fantasy world.
Ohh and Moose once shot in Finland are put into a huge drag bag or sled and pulled out by a team of about 6 or 7 men
