Reintroduce Wolves Back into England?

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Adam Weymouth, The Place Where Wolves Could Soon Return. BBC News Magazine, Oct 14, 2015.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33017511

Note:
(a) The reporter's last name comes from Weymouth, Dorset.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weymouth,_Dorset

(b) "In Glen Feshie there stand Scots Pines more than 300 years old"
(i) "Glen Feshie is a beautiful, wild glen."

* glen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen
(ii) River Feshie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Feshie
(a major right bank tributary of the River Spey [qv, for map of drain basin and identification of River Feshie]; turning sharply to the northwest as a result of the capture [qv] of the waters of Geldie Burn)

* burn (n; from Old English): "chiefly Scottish & Northern English a small stream; a brook"
www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/burn
(iii) Glen Feshie; A great example of rewilding a traditional sporting estate in the Cairngorms National Park.
www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/rewi ... projects/glenfeshie
("Not long ago, it was a deer forest. Under traditional deer management, it emphasised the deer and not the forest.  The result across its 17,000 hectares was dying remnants of ancient Caledonian pine forest. High densities of deer were eating every tree seedling trying to grow here. In fact, it was here that Edwin Landseer painted his famous 'The Monarch of the Glen' oil painting in 1851")

* Rewilding Britain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewilding_Britain
(A) Caledonian Forest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caledonian_Forest
(The Scots pines of the Caledonian Forest are directly descended from the first pines to arrive in Scotland following the ice-age; arriving about 7,000 BCE)
(B) Caledonia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caledonia
(C) The Monarch of the Glen (painting)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monarch_of_the_Glen_(painting)
(ii) Scots Pines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_pine
(section 5 Names)

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(c) "With the return of the beaver, the success of the wild cat, a growing call for the return of the lynx"
(i) Claire Marshall, Wild Beaver Gives Birth in England. BBC, June 24, 2015 (video).
www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33247511

Quote:

"The colony of wild beavers was first spotted living on the River Otter in February 2014.

"Beavers were hunted to extinction in England and Wales for their valuable fur and glandular oil during the 12th Century and disappeared from the rest of the UK 400 years later.

(A) After reports of trees chewed and fell and a woman's sighting of a beaver, a local retired environmental scientist Tom Buckley set up a hidden infrared motion sensor camera and captured footage of a family of three European beavers (Castor fiber), one juvenile. "Buckley does not know where they have come from."  Jessica Aldred, Wild Beavers Seen in England for First Time in Centuries. Guardian, Feb 27, 2014.
(B) beaver
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver
(includes two extant species, the North American beaver and Eurasian beaver; the second-largest rodent in the world (after the capybara); primarily nocturnal, herbivores, do not hibernate, have webbed hind-feet, and a broad, scaly tail. They have poor eyesight, but keen senses of hearing, smell”)
(ii) wildcat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat
("is the ancestor of the domestic cat. Genetic, morphological and archaeological evidence suggests that domestication of Old-World wildcats began approximately 7500 years BCE in the Fertile Crescent region of the Near East”)
(iii) lynx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx
(4 species, including bobcat in US; Lynx have characteristic tufts of black hair on the tips of their ears, large, padded paws for walking on snow)

plural: lynx or lynxes

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(d) "I began my walk on the Alladale Estate in Sutherland. At 28,000 acres, it comprises two valleys, Glen Alladale and Glen Mor. From the summit of the highest peak, Meall nam Fuaran, at 674m (2211ft), you can see the sea both ways."
(i) Sutherland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutherland
(a county; was called Suðrland ("southern land") from the standpoint of Orkney)

(e) "Paul Lister purchased the land in 2003.  In jeans and patched jumper, he seizes hold of my hand and ushers me through to the lounge. * * * Lister is heir to the MFI fortune."
(i) jumper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumper
(may refer to
* A top (in Ireland, the UK and the Commonwealth), often knitted, and pulled on over the head, covering the torso area; called a sweater in the USA[;]
* Jumper (dress) (in the USA), any shoulder-to-thigh length outer clothing that the wearer "jumps into", including the sleeveless, collarless dress, known elsewhere as a pinafore)

It's a sweater here.
(ii) MFI Group
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MFI_Group
(was a British furniture retailer;  founded in 1964 as Mullard Furniture Industries by two British men, Noel Lister and Donald Searle)

(f) "I tried to hold a path south through the bog, and leapt from one peat hag to the next"

hag (n): "Scottish & Northern English (also peat hag) an overhang of peat"
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/english/hag
(f) You should stop here. Endless debates after this point.