About the Deer-Forest Study
Pennsylvania forests face many challenges - invasive plants, insect outbreaks, soil acidity, tree diseases, and even deer. This study is being conducted to better understand the role of deer in the context of all these challenges and to help Pennsylvania’s forest and wildlife managers better manage deer and the forest.
January 25, 2022
A Thousand Words
We all know the adage – A picture is worth a thousand words. Do you know what it’s not worth? […]
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August 5, 2019
Warm and Fuzzy
Nobody likes population estimates. Can technology let us see what we cannot?
August 2, 2019
Sex Age Kill
Film noir masquerading as a population model
Change and Structure
Strap in for a low speed, unthrilling ride into 2 population estimation methods
Moving the Chains
Tackling the topic everyone loves to hate
April 11, 2019
Deer Crew Diaries – Entry 127
Goodbye deer, Hello FLIR
April 8, 2016
RIP MSY – You were not meant for the real world
Can we apply MSY to deer management? Do we want to?
October 6, 2021
Purple Mountains or Amber Waves
My summer vacation took me to the Adirondacks. The park is 6.1 million acres (larger than its neighbor state of […]
November 10, 2020
Magic!
Deer management, in the condensed version, has 3 steps: Identify goals and objectives Collect data to assess deer population and […]
June 30, 2020
It depends…
Two people independently sent me the same research paper a couple of months ago. The title – Synergistic Population Density […]
Over the river, through the woods
No one would go to grandma’s if she lived on a random transect.
Seekers
Wildlife are great at hiding. We need to be good at seeking.
June 14, 2018
Time May Change Me
This isn’t the first fawn survival study conducted in Pennsylvania. So have the times changed?
