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.

 

 

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