European mouflon Harzgerode in 1906, followed by further releases in the Taunus and the Solling. In all cases, the mouflon favoured level or low-lying plains with forest cover and not, as expected, rocky, mountainous areas. Gradually they were mixed with varieties of domestic sheep, especially crossbreeding with the racka. After the European mouflon population declined during the First World War, in the German Reich alone about 2,500 were counted in 1938. After a further decline during the Second World War, the number of European mouflon worldwide in 1954 was only about 4,500. After that, numbers recovered due to careful management and grew
A Million Wild Acres A Million Wild Acres A Million Wild Acres: 200 years of man and an Australian forest is a non-fiction book written by Eric Charles Rolls (1923–2007). It was first published in Melbourne by Nelson in 1981. "A Million Wild Acres" is not just a regional history of what is now known as the Pilliga Scrub, but also a history of European settlement in Australia. The book won The Age Book of the Year (1981), C.J. Dennis Prize and Talking Book of the Year. https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-history-listen/eric-rolls-and-the-pilliga/10594212 Watermark Literary Society https://web.archive.org/web/20110219162616/http://www.watermarkliterarysociety.asn.au/ Wyndham, Susan. Author Rolls dies aged 84 Sydney Morning Herald 02/11/2007 Hanley,