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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 ...
Ecological And Sociological Aspects of White-tailed Deer Herbivory In South Central Wisconsin
White-tailed deer numbers have increased dramatically in Wisconsin in the 20th century. This has been due to several factors; (1) protection afforded deer ...
Deer Density Effects On A Forest Ecosystem: A Study Its History-Design-Implementation
Today's second growth Cherry-Maple forests on the Allegheny Plateau have been heavily influenced by decades of overbrowsing by white-tailed deer. When these ...
Canary in the Coal Mine - A Short History of Northern Pennsylvania Forests and Thier Deer Herd
The results that we discuss in the text of this issue are important to most northeastern states. But why focus on northwestern Pennsylvania forests, you ask? ...
Current and Predicted Long-term Effects of Deer Browsing in Hemlock Forests in Michigan, USA
Remnants of virgin hemlock Tsuga canadensis (L.) Carr. forest in the Porcupine Mountains, Michigan, USA, have experienced inadequate hemlock regeneration ...
Deer Browsing in Northern Hardwoods after Clearcutting
There is a close relationship between management of forest land for timber and management for game. This is especially evident in the use of cutting practices ...
Deer Carrying Capacity: Too Few, Too Many, and for Whom?
Management of white-tailed deer is one of Pennsylvania's most controversial issues. This gentle, attractive mammal is avaluable and widely appreciated natural ...
Deer Exclusion Effects on Understory Development Following Partial Cutting in a Pennsylvania Oak Stand
Forty fenced and unfenced paired plots were established in a central Pennsylvania mixed oak stand following an improvement shelterwood cut to assess the ...
Deer in Allegheny Plateau Forests: Learning the Lessons of Scale
Scientists began reporting that deer were reducing the abundance and diversity of plant species in Allegheny Plateau forests in the 1930s and 1940s. By the ...
Deer and Ecosystem Management
Within the last decade, managers of public and private forestlands have contemplated managing forest resources in ways that address the desired (future) ...
Deer and Forest Health
Scientists have studied deer and their impacts on forests for most of this century. They conducted much of this research before the phrase "forest health" took ...
History of Deer Population Trends and Forest Cutting on the Allegheny National Forest
The forests of the Allegheny Plateau section of northwestern Pennsylvania have been severely impacted for more than 70 years by selective browsing by ...
Some have a hard time seeing the trees from the deer
Oh deer, what can the matter be? Wisconsin legislative committees heard from several natural resource specialists that high deer populations are the matter. ...
The Forest Nobody Knows
The non-urban residents of the Northeast, who live in or close to the forests and woodlands, and the urban residents who live within several hours' drive of ...
The Need and Difficulty of Bringing the Pennsylvania Deer Herd Under Control
The Pennsylvania white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus.) herd has increased dramatically in the last several decades, despite greatly increased harvests. ...
Trouble in the Understory
Imagine returning to a favorite woodland you knew as a child but had not visited for decades. You recall a hardwood stand in southern Wisconsin where the ...
Deer and Diversity in Allegheny Hardwood Forests: Managing an Unlikely Challenge
High white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) density and interfering vegetation were identified as factors affecting the regeneration of hardwood forests in ...
Devices to Protect Seedlings From Deer Browsing
Studies on the Allegheny Plateau of Pennsylvania have shown that several types of wire or plastic tubes can be erected around tree seedlings to protect them ...
Effects of White-Tailed Deer Herbivory on Forest Gap Dynamics in a Wildlife Preserve, Pennsylvania, USA
Many forests perpetuate themselves through a cycle of overstory tree mortality, canopy gap formation, new tree establishment and growth, and eventual gap ...
Managing White-tailed Deer in Forest Habitat From an Ecosystem Perspective
Deer play a role in ecosystems, particularly forests, in various ways including: (1) Herbivory or predation on the plants they use as food (2) Altering the ...

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