The Great Outdoors

We are the reason deer numbers are too high - and we have to fix it

HAD AN EXPERIENCE with a 10ft high deer fence walking near Loch Lomond. I was four months pregnant. It was snowy and windy. A huge fence loomed out of the swirling gloom. It wasn’t marked on the map, and there were no signs suggesting which direction might possibly lead to a gate or a stile. It was a case of turn back or get a leg over. I climbed, but it was horribly precarious – and I know many walking friends who wouldn’t have

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