...in order to maintain a super abundance of grouse to be driven into a line of guns

I reckon its residents are just that dumb then.

There’s probably volatile mercury being released from burning peat. Northern peat is a mercury sponge.

The UK has a real problem with its moors being drained by the Driven Grouse Shooting industry too; the grouse can only eat heather tips and are pretty much on the lowest rung of the food chain, so the moor owners drain the moors to make sure only heather grows, and kill every other animal on the moors, in order to…