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Deer browse plants of southern forests

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Abstract

The white-tailed deer, one of this country's most popular forest game species, is essentially a browsing ruminant. Its diet is chiefly tender shoots, twigs, and leaves, a wide assortment of herbaceous foodstuffs, mast, and certain fruits. Browse, by far, makes up the bulk of its diet. This paper offers land managers information about some of the more important deer browse plants of southern forests. 

Keywords

red maple, American beautyberry, trumpet-creeper, common buttonbush, fringetree, sweet pepperbush, buckwheat-tree, flowering dogwood, hawthorn, swamp cyrilla, strawberry-bush, yellow jessamine, smooth hydrangea, yaupon, dahoon, possumhaw, Virginia sweetspire, eastern redcedar, yellow-poplar, Japanese honeysuckle sweetbay, blackgum, sourwood, redbay, black cherry, buffalo-nut, oak, rosebay rhododendron, raspberry, American elder, sassafras, greenbrier, common sweetleaf, blueberry, deerberry, sparkleberry, maple viburnum, hobblebush, witherod, southern arrowwood, summer grape, white-tailed deer, browse, deer habitat, forage production, southern forests, forest game research committee, southeastern section of the wildlife society

Citation

Halls, Lowell K.; Ripley, Thomas H. 1961. Deer browse plants of southern forests. USDA-Forest Service. Southern and Southeastern Forest Experiment Stations, 78 pp. illus.
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