A map showing the estate boundaries, Cairngorms National Park boundary and the main features of the CSDMG area is provided as Appendix 2. The policies and objectives of the CSDMG are,

To maintain native populations of deer at levels that will permit the sustainable delivery of all land-use objectives including nature conservation, traditional sporting deer-stalking, farming, forestry, and tourism as important environmental, social and economic activities within the Cairngorms National Park.

Use of the word, ‘sustainable’, implies the acceptance that red deer will be maintained at different densities in different areas and that these densities will contribute to the imposition of a biotic climax on the locally occurring vegetation that will, in some areas prevent succession to woodland and in some areas may convert heather moorland into herb-rich bent and fescue grasslands. Throughout the area, however, there will be an objective to enhance, maintain and restore biodiversity and range condition within the generally accepted habitat types.