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MoD Estates, Salisbury Plain
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23/10/2008
 


 
001.jpg The rain pours down as stalker Steve Alexander looks for roe deer in Salisbury Plain, 3456 x 2304 The rain pours down as stalker Steve Alexander looks for roe deer in Salisbury Plain, 3456 x 2304Traditionally in the Army, if it moves you salute it and if it stays still you paint it. Charlie Jacoby finds out what they do with their roe deerUntil I stepped on the mortar bomb, I reckoned I was in a roe stalkers’ paradise. It is a 33,000-acre estate in Wiltshire where hardly anyone goes. Deer are healthy, you will see them regularly as you stalk. The trouble is the high explosives. Happily, this one was a blank. These are the Army ranges on Salisbury Plain.“Don’t touch it,” said Steve Alexander as I bent down to examine it. “That really is the golden rule here,” he continued. “Don’t touch the ordnance.”The bangs don’t drive away the deer. There are hulks of old tanks and troop carriers that the army artillery aims at, so the shelling areas are concentrated. But it is not safe for stalkers to go there except, that is, for the group in Defence Estates charged with managing the deer population on the MoD’s land. They are allowed out during gaps in the shelling.Steve manages the deerstalking on this vast centre of Salisbury Plain. The whole Plain extends to nearly 100,000 acres. Its northern half holds the two Live Impact Areas where the bulk of the deer live. The southern half has the Dry Training Areas and so more disturbance from troop movements.Almost all the deer in the centre are roe. There are occasional muntjac or transit fallow. Muntjac are now creeping in to the western edge of the Plain and both fallow and muntjac are established on the eastern edge.What a wonderful opportunity for officers to enjoy some free jolly old stalking, you might think. But it is not like that. Steve’s job is serious deer management. He enjoys his stalking and he does the job for free but each year he has to come up with a management plan for the Plain based on a census carried out by up to 40 volunteers. He has a pool of stalkers, all qualified to DSC1 or higher, drawn fro
 
Looking for roe deer on Salisbury Plain
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003.jpg Steve Alexander on Salisbury Plain, 3456 x 2304 Steve Alexander on Salisbury Plain, 3456 x 2304Traditionally in the Army, if it moves you salute it and if it stays still you paint it. Charlie Jacoby finds out what they do with their roe deerUntil I stepped on the mortar bomb, I reckoned I was in a roe stalkers’ paradise. It is a 33,000-acre estate in Wiltshire where hardly anyone goes. Deer are healthy, you will see them regularly as you stalk. The trouble is the high explosives. Happily, this one was a blank. These are the Army ranges on Salisbury Plain.“Don’t touch it,” said Steve Alexander as I bent down to examine it. “That really is the golden rule here,” he continued. “Don’t touch the ordnance.”The bangs don’t drive away the deer. There are hulks of old tanks and troop carriers that the army artillery aims at, so the shelling areas are concentrated. But it is not safe for stalkers to go there except, that is, for the group in Defence Estates charged with managing the deer population on the MoD’s land. They are allowed out during gaps in the shelling.Steve manages the deerstalking on this vast centre of Salisbury Plain. The whole Plain extends to nearly 100,000 acres. Its northern half holds the two Live Impact Areas where the bulk of the deer live. The southern half has the Dry Training Areas and so more disturbance from troop movements.Almost all the deer in the centre are roe. There are occasional muntjac or transit fallow. Muntjac are now creeping in to the western edge of the Plain and both fallow and muntjac are established on the eastern edge.What a wonderful opportunity for officers to enjoy some free jolly old stalking, you might think. But it is not like that. Steve’s job is serious deer management. He enjoys his stalking and he does the job for free but each year he has to come up with a management plan for the Plain based on a census carried out by up to 40 volunteers. He has a pool of stalkers, all qualified to DSC1 or higher, drawn from all ranks of all services and from the MoD Civil
 
Steve Alexander on Salisbury Plain
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002.jpg Steve Alexander on Salisbury Plain, 3456 x 2304 Steve Alexander on Salisbury Plain, 3456 x 2304Traditionally in the Army, if it moves you salute it and if it stays still you paint it. Charlie Jacoby finds out what they do with their roe deerUntil I stepped on the mortar bomb, I reckoned I was in a roe stalkers’ paradise. It is a 33,000-acre estate in Wiltshire where hardly anyone goes. Deer are healthy, you will see them regularly as you stalk. The trouble is the high explosives. Happily, this one was a blank. These are the Army ranges on Salisbury Plain.“Don’t touch it,” said Steve Alexander as I bent down to examine it. “That really is the golden rule here,” he continued. “Don’t touch the ordnance.”The bangs don’t drive away the deer. There are hulks of old tanks and troop carriers that the army artillery aims at, so the shelling areas are concentrated. But it is not safe for stalkers to go there except, that is, for the group in Defence Estates charged with managing the deer population on the MoD’s land. They are allowed out during gaps in the shelling.Steve manages the deerstalking on this vast centre of Salisbury Plain. The whole Plain extends to nearly 100,000 acres. Its northern half holds the two Live Impact Areas where the bulk of the deer live. The southern half has the Dry Training Areas and so more disturbance from troop movements.Almost all the deer in the centre are roe. There are occasional muntjac or transit fallow. Muntjac are now creeping in to the western edge of the Plain and both fallow and muntjac are established on the eastern edge.What a wonderful opportunity for officers to enjoy some free jolly old stalking, you might think. But it is not like that. Steve’s job is serious deer management. He enjoys his stalking and he does the job for free but each year he has to come up with a management plan for the Plain based on a census carried out by up to 40 volunteers. He has a pool of stalkers, all qualified to DSC1 or higher, drawn from all ranks of all services and from the MoD Civil
 
Steve Alexander on Salisbury Plain
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004.jpg Unexploded mortar bomb, 3456 x 2304 Unexploded mortar bomb, 3456 x 2304Traditionally in the Army, if it moves you salute it and if it stays still you paint it. Charlie Jacoby finds out what they do with their roe deerUntil I stepped on the mortar bomb, I reckoned I was in a roe stalkers’ paradise. It is a 33,000-acre estate in Wiltshire where hardly anyone goes. Deer are healthy, you will see them regularly as you stalk. The trouble is the high explosives. Happily, this one was a blank. These are the Army ranges on Salisbury Plain.“Don’t touch it,” said Steve Alexander as I bent down to examine it. “That really is the golden rule here,” he continued. “Don’t touch the ordnance.”The bangs don’t drive away the deer. There are hulks of old tanks and troop carriers that the army artillery aims at, so the shelling areas are concentrated. But it is not safe for stalkers to go there except, that is, for the group in Defence Estates charged with managing the deer population on the MoD’s land. They are allowed out during gaps in the shelling.Steve manages the deerstalking on this vast centre of Salisbury Plain. The whole Plain extends to nearly 100,000 acres. Its northern half holds the two Live Impact Areas where the bulk of the deer live. The southern half has the Dry Training Areas and so more disturbance from troop movements.Almost all the deer in the centre are roe. There are occasional muntjac or transit fallow. Muntjac are now creeping in to the western edge of the Plain and both fallow and muntjac are established on the eastern edge.What a wonderful opportunity for officers to enjoy some free jolly old stalking, you might think. But it is not like that. Steve’s job is serious deer management. He enjoys his stalking and he does the job for free but each year he has to come up with a management plan for the Plain based on a census carried out by up to 40 volunteers. He has a pool of stalkers, all qualified to DSC1 or higher, drawn from all ranks of all services and from the MoD Civil Service. Eve
 
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