Regulation, if effective, might correct this but returning the natural predators would probably do the job more effectively. Wolves and lynx were effective at these latitudes in the past but human activity eliminated them. Sheep farming and other livestock might be at some risk from their reintroduction, but the problem arose from man’s interference. It would be simplest to thus tackle it at source by reversing our earlier mistake.
Month: January 2020
OLD MAN RIVER BY OTTO EASTBROOK
The stolen gate on the towpath along the Leven behind the golf course. By Bill Heaney We have our own Old Man River, the River
WEE RAINBOW OVER THE VALE TODAY
The old Royal Naval Torpedo Factory in Alexandria. Picture by Kim Huxter
ALL UNDER ONE BANNER BRAVES WEATHER TO MARCH
BBC Scotland is reporting that tens of thousands of Scottish independence supporters have marched through Glasgow in the first of a series of protests planned for the coming year.
EDITORIAL: THE DEMOCRAT
The press and media have a duty to report and comment on all they consider newsworthy. All politics, for example, is local. Democracy is a fragrant flower which is being trampled on here.
BOOKS: THE PREACHER’S WIFE
Do women exercise more power when they stay in their own female spheres, or when they try to compete on an equal level with men in worlds constructed by and for men? This highly readable and absorbing book is an extended reflection on what it means to be female and famous and religious in the United States of America over the past forty or so years.