Deer & Forests
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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 ...