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Scotland Outdoors

The Complexities of Deer Management in Scotland

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Mark Stephen is out on the hill at Glen Falloch Estate with Falcon Frost and Tom Turnbull

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0:00.0

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0:35.6

This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:45.4

Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this.

0:48.2

I'm Mark Stephen.

0:50.0

Scotland looks the way it does for a reason.

0:53.2

There's a constant interplay between species that affects amongst other things how and where trees grow.

0:59.4

Now, a big factor in that equation are deer and how those deer are controlled.

1:04.4

Deer of no natural predators in Scotland, so humans have to do the job.

1:08.7

Recently, I want to talk this through with two men,

1:11.6

Tom Turnbull, who's chairman of the Association of Deer Management Groups in Scotland,

1:15.9

and Falcon Frost, who's a ranger and Glenn Fallach Estate.

1:19.7

We started off bumping up a Land Rover track on the estate,

1:23.4

looking what was actually growing in the verges.

1:27.3

Falcon, it looks like you've got some quite good regeneration in here.

1:30.3

Yep well this generation here to the left it's actually natural generation and it's out with

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