Deer population management articles by Whitetail Stewards, Inc.

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Deer population management articles

Deer population management

• Comparing quality deer management (QDM) to other deer management strategies - K. Adams
• The importance of harvesting antlerless deer- K. Adams
• What are cull bucks? - K. Adams
• Understanding deer sex ratios - K. Adams

More population management information: Links to additional fact sheets

• Dispersal of yearling bucks - Pennsylvania Game Commission
• Implications of yearling buck dispersal - Pennsylvania Game Commission
• White-tailed deer population regulation, management goals - The Noble Foundation
• Who's doing the breeding? - The Noble Foundation
• Doe harvest effort - The Noble Foundation
• Killing the factory? - The Noble Foundation
• Me, shoot a doe? - The Noble Foundation
• Passing the buck - The Noble Foundation
• Use these strategies for managing buck harvest - The Noble Foundation
• The need for deer population management (pdf) - Northeast Deer Technical Committee
• Quality deer management: guidelines for implementation (pdf) - University of Tennessee Cooperative Extension
• Can QDM improve deer management in forested landscapes? - Cornell University
• The white-tailed deer in North Carolina - North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission
• White-tailed deer management - Alabama Cooperative Extension
• Managing Iowa wildlife: white-tailed deer (pdf) - Iowa State University Cooperative Extension
• Missouri whitetails: a management guide for landowners and deer enthusiasts - Missouri Department of Conservation

Aging white-tailed deer: Links to additional fact sheets

• Aging white-tailed deer - The Noble Foundation
• A guide to age determination of white-tailed deer (pdf) - Texas Parks and Wildlife
• Aging white-tailed deer by tooth replacement and wear: accurate or unreliable - Quality Deer Management Association

Monitoring deer populations: Links to additional fact sheets

• Deer census techniques (pdf) - Texas Parks and Wildlife
• White-tailed deer management in Florida Part 1: Collecting information on herd health - Florida Cooperative Extension

Managing urban deer populations: Links to additional fact sheets

• Managing white-tailed deer in suburban environments: a technical guide - (pdf) Cornell University, The Wildlife Society, Northeast Wildlife Damage Research and Outreach Cooperative
• A citizens guide to the management of white-tailed deer in urban and suburban New York (pdf) - New Yor State Department of Environmental Conservation
• A manual for deer management in urban and suburban areas of Kansas (pdf) - Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
• Managing white-tailed deer in Michigan: capture and translocation as a means of population control (pdf) - Michigan Department of Natural Resources

Controlling deer damage: Links to additional fact sheets

• Control of deer damage in tree plantations - Ohio State University Cooperative Extension
• Wildlife and homeowners: New Jersey's white-tailed deer - Rutgers Cooperative Extension
• Deer tolerant plants - Rutgers Cooperative Extension
• Controlling deer damage in Wisconsin (pdf) - University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension
• Controlling deer damage in Georgia - Georgia Department of Natural Resources
• Deer Damage and Control - University of Connecticut
• Animal damage control: white-tailed deer - University of Connecticut
• How deer and beaver affect you and your land and what you can do about it - Cornell University

Impacts of overbrowsing: Links to additional fact sheets

• The impact of deer on forest vegetation in Pennsylvania (pdf) - United States Forest Service
• The impact of deer on woodland biodiversity (pdf) - Forestry Commission
• Ecological impacts of deer overabundance (pdf) - Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
• Forests too deer: edge effects in northern Wisconsin (pdf) - Conservation Biology
• Deer impacts on forest ecosystems: a North American perspective (pdf) - Forestry
• A demographic study of deer browsing impacts on Tillium grandiflorum (pdf) - Plant Ecology
• Direct and indirect effects of white-tailed deer in forest ecosystems (pdf) - Forest Ecology and Management

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