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Monitoring White-tailed Deer and Their Impact on Indiana Woodlands

Monitoring White-tailed Deer and Their Impact on Indiana Woodlands Product code: FNR-640-W

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Wherever deer exist, they will be impacting the ecosystem through browsing. But at what level is that impact considered harmful? Many ecologists consider deer impact harmful when deer begin to reduce plant diversity in a woodland through browsing. knowing the exact number of deer on a property is difficult to measure and unnecessary. There are relatively easy ways to estimate the number of deer on a property or track trends in population sizes over time. This publication is written to help woodland owners better understand how to monitor deer and their impact.

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Produced

3/20/2024

Author

Jarred Brooke; Rylee Tomey, Richard Sample, Lenny D. Farlee, Liz Jackson, Mike Jenkins

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