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13-03-2010, 06:40 PM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Brockenhurst
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| | | Re: Help identify this little swimmer!
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Originally Posted by Dogs  I dont understand what the forrestry commision need to know for? They dont carry out any mink control, or look after riverways.. | Oh yes they do, they do not usually advertise the fact but it is a job that is carried out all too frequently in the New Forest where so called animal rights activists freed a load of them from a mink farm a few years ago.
The Woodman
Regarding the FC Rangers, that lot are just glorified tourist guides, a FC Keeper is the person to contact for the patch of forest in question.
Ian |
14-03-2010, 10:26 AM
|  | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: North Yorkshire
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| | | Re: Help identify this little swimmer!
I do trapping on foresty commision land, on their behalf, the area has a large water vole population so needs protection. |
14-03-2010, 10:29 AM
| | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: North Yorkshire
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| | | Re: Help identify this little swimmer!
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Originally Posted by arveey Here's one from a few weeks ago!  |
Nice photo but of a bank vole not a water vole these are eaten by mink but are less susceptible to predation as water voles as they are generally not aquatic and have a much larger population. |
14-03-2010, 05:01 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: On the southern boundary of the Lake District National Park.
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| | | Re: Help identify this little swimmer!
Beekeeper Ian - there are only Rangers in the North West Region of the FC, no Keepers.
One Manager, five Beat Rangers and a student who spend 80% of their time managing deer and 20% on conservation work including Mink and Squirrel control plus all the other stuff when workload permits. |
14-03-2010, 07:02 PM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Brockenhurst
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| | | Re: Help identify this little swimmer!
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Originally Posted by The Woodman Beekeeper Ian - there are only Rangers in the North West Region of the FC, no Keepers.
One Manager, five Beat Rangers and a student who spend 80% of their time managing deer and 20% on conservation work including Mink and Squirrel control plus all the other stuff when workload permits. | Didn't realise that The Woodman, sorry for my mistaken belief in thinking that keepers were still active over all forestry land, having said that, in the New Forest, we have several keepers due to retire in the near future and already there are mutterings from the FC about the cost of training replacements, so i guess ours will soon go the same way as yours have, that is assuming you used to have keepers once upon a time.
Ian |
14-03-2010, 08:32 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: On the southern boundary of the Lake District National Park.
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| | | Re: Help identify this little swimmer!
No worries Ian, I don't recall Keepers in Cumbria but that doesn't mean there weren't any. My Ranger mate was aware of the Keeper situation in the New Forest, perhaps it's a legacy of bygone tymes or the affluent south! 
He also said that Mink were trapped on FC land by sporting tenants and other parties. | | | |
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