The area includes Rannoch Moor and Black Mount and extends down Loch Etive to Taynuilt and to the North West to Kentallen. The deer population within this group is almost entirely red with the occasional sighting of roe and reports of some sika in the south west of the group area. The deer management in this plan predominantly relates to red deer.

It has 28 subscribing members, and was formed in 2003 as an amalgamation of the East Glenlyon and West Rannoch Deer Management Groups. It is not part of any other local association, and operates under its own constitution.

For deer management purposes, the Group is split into five sub areas.

The area comprises mainly upland terrain characterised by undulating moorland rising to high mountains and corries at the northern and western end.

The East Ross Deer Management group encapsulates a land area of circa 20,000 hectares of mixed land types with the predominance being heather moorland, commercial forestry blocks, parcels of farmland both for arable and stock farming use and in the Northern section of the group there are areas of the land which are under crofting tenure including 3 areas of common grazing. The northern reaches of the group form part of the water catchment area for the river Carron and given that some of the current group.