Woodlands, Game, 

 & Sport 



IN the first two or three pages of chapter x of 

 Wild Life in the Hampshire Highlands, one of the 

 earlier volumes of this Series, Mr. Dewar has 

 stated the case as to woods and game both well 

 and moderately : ' Forestry and game preservation 

 on a really considerable scale do not by any means 

 always fit in well with each other/ he says, while 

 he gives a concrete example, with particular re- 

 ference to ground game, in which a landowner, 

 on re-entering into possession from his late 

 sporting tenants, wrote in bitterness of spirit that 

 * this fine old estate, with its beautiful forest and 

 woods, has been eaten up by Rabbits, and the mis- 

 chief done is incalculable and irretrievable" 



Similar examples could be multiplied to a vast 

 extent. The magnitude of the destruction rabbits 



can cause was indicated in the evidence given 



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