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Interesting to see that Scotland's largest landowners, Anders and Anne Povlsen plant to rewild their land in Scotland.  How does this fit in with the aims of the commission to investigate landownership ?

Is Paul Lister still planning on introducing wolves etc.?

Rewilding has been underway in Scotland for decades, from well before the term came into use - look at eg Creag Meagaidh, Abernethy, Inshriach...

Get the wolves in - then we'll talk.

Better keep those down jackets off the floor

I'm naturally sceptical, but one argument I can never really fathom is this logic that dealing with perhaps 100 landowners is so utterly impossible and complicated that the only possible solution worth considering is trying to switch to having 50,000 disparate individual landowners.

It strikes me l that in terms of implementing Government policy at a national or local level, the fewer the stakeholders, the easier it should be, not the other way around.

However, I might be making the naive assumption that some policies (as opposed to greivances) might actually exist.

Today's Guardian touches on that, with Povlsens' chap making a similar point:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/21/danish-billionaires-anders-...

I'm confused.

They've been planting trees and culling deer since 2006.

Good stuff as far as I'm concerned.

I demand bears! Go big or go home!

go bare or go home!

Bears?  Pshaw.  Mastodons or just don't bother.

....and a  reintroduction scheme putting 1 Nessie in every Loch. 

Wouldn't you need a breeding pair? 

I'm usually very skeptical too, but if what's promised is even half delivered it's still an improvement in my view.

the ownership question seems to be more relevant to society and economic activity in general. e.g. making land available for development or investment. (we're not talking about redeveloping wilderness here)

going back to being my cynical self for a moment, policy is not law. the influence of land management subsidies, which are policy, are always the elephant in the room. it might be the case that many smaller landowners would be more influenced by development potential rather than keeping the dynasty ticking over with subsidy cash or the extremely wealthy who can do whatever they please.

You would think so but a nessie infestation is no laughing matter without predators to keep the numbers down.

You forgot the main nessie predator is still man, plenty of them still about

until there a blue faced picts raiding across Hadrian's Wall, Scotland is not wild in my view

Not a very effective one.  Nessie hunters never, ever find the monster.

I dunno, after yesterdays result against Kazakhstan there's a lot of pretty wild Scots this morning.

Not half as wild as Theresa May. She is absolutely livid and envious at Scotland's ability to exit from Europe in only 90 minutes. It's taken her three years to get absolutely nowhere.