Deer Browse Production: Rapid Sampling and Computer-aided Analysis

Forest W. Stearns; Dennis L. Schweitzer; William A. Creed

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Deer Browse Production: Rapid Sampling and Computer-aided Analysis

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Authors:

Forest W. Stearns, Dennis L. Schweitzer, William A. Creed

Year:

1968

Type:

Research Note

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

Research Note NC-66. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station

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Abstract

Describes field techniques by which winter deer-browse production can be sampled with reasonable accuracy and moderate effort; and expedites the tabulation of the browse data. The method will be useful to both land managers and scientists doing research on the habitat of the white-tailed deer.

Keywords

White-tailed deer, computer-aided analysis, deer-browse

Citation

Stearns, Forest W.; Schweitzer, Dennis L.; Creed, William A. 1968. Deer Browse Production: Rapid Sampling and Computer-aided Analysis. Research Note NC-66. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station