Deer and Managers

Further to the content of the last post. I said it would be unthinkable to have no deer on Blacka after ten years or so of looking out for them and sometimes being lucky enough to see them. It would also be unthinkable to have the deer 'managed' in any way by the managers. The whole fascination with the deer is that they are wild and free. Managing them would ruin their appeal. Every time there is any suggestion of controlling them in any way we need to be adamant that the managers should not get their way. They are unrelenting in their quest for command and control and will take any opportunity to pursue their interventionist agenda and spend vast amounts of time devising bamboozling justifications - all at public expense. Remember that the Eastern Moors Partnership's draft management plan claimed that they would be managing the deer and that the National Trust officer responsible at that time was boasting about management and talking about selling the venison in their shop. One thing leads to another. They talk about wildlife but have no understanding of the beauty and appeal of genuinely free and wild creatures. Managers will always find an excuse for management and especially if they can get some grant or subsidy for doing it. For them leaving a place to be itself is simply not an option.