Your essential guide to grouse shooting and moorland management

After spending 46 years researching and advising in the uplands, we support grouse moor management for three primary reasons:

1. The habitat management undertaken on grouse moors preserves and enhances heather-dominated habitats.
2. The package of management, notably habitat enhancement along with predator control, contributes to the conservation of a suite of upland bird species including upland waders. This preservation of habitat and its wildlife thus stems national declines which have been driven by land-use change, predation pressure and climate change.
3. This is a land use which delivers high nature conservation value but is funded primarily by private investment and supports local communities economically, socially and culturally.

Contents

• Grouse shooting
• Conservation on grouse moors
• Heather burning
• Heather burning and peat formation
• Heather burning and water quality
• Moorland wildfire
• Moorland drainage
• Disease control on grouse moors
• Upland predator control
• Hen harriers and red grouse
• Mountain hares and red grouse
• Alternative moorland use
• Forestry
• Farming
• Commonly heard criticisms of driven grouse shooting