Deer Management Plan

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Breadalbane DMG are currently taking forwards their Deer Management Plan, which can be located below. It comprises a number of documents, including maps and population models, along with essential background information and a Working Plan.

If you would like to make comment on our plan, or bring up any new queries, please contact the Group Secretary at victor@nativewoods.co.uk.

Main Documents

BDMG Background Information and Policies Document

BDMG Working Plan

The Working Plan document evolves as work progresses. The Plan shown here is the updated version which will be considered in again in spring 2025. The above plan has been superceded to some extent by a higher than anticipated count in spring 2024. The spreadsheet below shows how the counted population will be reduced over the coming three years back to target densities, and is effectively our working plan from 2024-25 to 2026-27.

2024-27 deer reduction plan

Maps

BDMG Location Map

BDMG Members Map

BDMG Reporting Units map

BDMG Management Objectives Map

BDMG Sheep and Parish Boundaries Map

BDMG Community Councils Map

BDMG Designated Sites Map

BDMG Landscape Designations Map

BDMG Designated Sites Condition Map

BDMG Woodland Creation Map

BDMG Herbivore Impacts outwith designated sites map

BDMG Key Herbivore impacts map

BDMG 2011 Deer Density map

BDMG 2015 Deer Density Map

BDMG 2017 Deer density Map

BDMG 2019 Deer density map

BDMG 2021 Deer Density Map

BDMG 2023 Deer Density Map

BDMG 2024 Deer Density map

BDMG Deer- Vehicle collisions Map

BDMG Revised Sub- areas map

BDMG Habitat Monitoring Plots

Appendicies

Appendix 1 BDMG Constitution

Appendix 2 BDMG Contacts

This Appendix is Confidential to Group members only. All communication with BDMG is encouraged through the Chair or Secretary, who will pass on contacts for individual members as required.

Appendix 3 BDMG Designated Sites

Appendix 4 BDMG Required Deer Cull Information

Appendix 5 BDMG Individual Deer cull targets 2015-16

This Appendix is confidential to Group members only. Cull targets are collated at a Sub- area level and listed in Appendix 7, below.

Appendix 6- Monitoring of Designated features

Population Model evaluation document

Adjusted Model from 2015

Unadjusted model from 2015

Appendix 8 BDMG Broad Habitat Data

Appendix 9 Habitat Targets

Appendix 10 The Risk of Undergrazing

Recommended Larder Sheets

BDMG Larder Sheet- Males

BDMG- Larder Sheet- Females