Mountain Lines
by Nelson Haas
Science Attacks the White-Tailed Deer . . . Again
Living far from academia, I truly cannot comprehend the continual assassination of the white-tailed deer as a villainous destroyer of our natural world, but here it comes again.
As you know, the white-tailed deer has been under a drastic reduction program for over a decade because they “eat plants,” but when deer populations were reduced to extremely low densities for several years, no appreciable increase was noted in forest plant regeneration. So now, they’re doing another, 5-year study to see if perhaps deer do not have the devastating impact on forests as once thought.