I'll have one more say tonight and then I must be away to my bed.

"Recently, there has also been interest over Scottish landowners who are planning to build large game reserves on their land and release the species that are, at present, extinct. Paul Lister plans to release Eurasian Lynx, Brown Bear, Grey Wolf, Elk, Wild Boar and species already present in Scotland into a huge 200 square kilometre enclosure at his estate, Alladale, due for completion in 2009. A trial enclosure (5.5 km˛) will be built this year and Elk, Wild Boar, Red Deer and Roe Deer will be released into it this year and next."

I'll not argue here with any landlowner trying to make his way in these difficult times, but I do want to point out to the urban-dwellers among you that a return to the land of yesteryear is nigh on impossible.

It is certainly an accomplishable goal if you accept that your wee cats and lap dogs are acceptable prey for wolves and lynx and that you, yourself, will have a much, much, much smaller terraine for roaming when bears and wolves again roam the hills of home.

Rex