Hound trailing ends More than a century of hound trailing has been brought to an end on Langholm Moor because its new owners will not continue to grant permission. Devon-based carbon-offsetting company Oxygen Conservation bought Blackburn and Hartsgarth farms in April this year from the Buccleuch Estate, adding nearly 11,500 acres to a growing portfolio across the UK. The company states on its website: “Our commitment [is] to restoring natural processes and ecosystems.” The company’s founder, Rich Stockdale, told The Eskdale & Liddesdale Advertiser that hound trailing is not consistent with their conservation-based objectives.“Running a group of dogs across the landscape, though I appreciate is important to a small group of people who are passionate about the sport, does untold damage to flora, fauna and fungi,” he said. George McGimpsey, a keen local houndsman, told the paper he disagreed: “Where we lay the trail, that’s where the hounds go. They don’t run all over
08/04/2021
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