Whitetails Are Changing Our Woodlands

This headline from a January 1993 article inthe Washington Post gets to the heart of scientists' concern that browsing by an overabundance of whitetail deer is inhibiting forest growth and reducing the diversity of plant and animal species. The article cites an excessive deer population in Virginia C...probably five times as large as it was when Europe ansettlers arrived, but in fact the problem extends throughout the eastern temperate hardwood forests from southern NewEngland through the mid-Atlantic states and westward to the CrestLakes region. This was written by Stephen B. Jones, David deCalesta and Shelby E. Chunko for The American Forests.

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