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     a Pennsylvania doer presure ws first visible on oaks, cherry, 
 
ashy. maples, ground hemlocks and hemlock# As these became seafle, 
 
laurel, r            sad pines were taken(4). Laurel is at the bottom of

 
the preference list, bt most of the fawns ding in 1925-29   ad eaten it 
 
in qusntity(2?  P" 3). 14    plants im.prtant to other game speos were

 
also depletedt thug grenbrler, on wh'oh ruffed gse depend for oer, 
 
was nearly snibilate,    Snowshoe bare and wild tu.e  likewise felt the 
 
pressue of eess doer.     (latter from Seth Gordon 6/15/43) 
 
    Winter Doer Bavior. Most animals, when carode    and b      disperse

 
by their amn social pr-suroe. Deer herds, at least in winter, sen 
 
devoid of such preseur. State after state reports instaces of deer 
 
stubbornl  refusin  to leave (or even to be driven from(16, p. is) ) 
 
depleted winter rag. Par-phrased in huma    terms, "doer would starve
rather 
 
than maOve. 
 
     This trait results in m1! dee to the winter r-g. The         ibb(21'
P   245), 
 
Pennsylvania(. p. 219 7, P. 19), New York(19# p. 12), adg    ga(lP- P   39)

 
e411 report this spotty character, sand it is now visible In Wiscmonsin.

 
It soafuses, laymen. who see spots of unismefged winter browse and conclude

 
that no crisis exists. 
 
     Perhap  wolves and cm  rs originlly performed for deer the function

 
of dispersal from conested spots which most spoies perform for themselveOs,

 
     Limitations of Artificial )eedia. The first hun reaction to 
deer starvation is al1s an impulse to feed the herd, rather than to 
 
reduce it.  Winter feedipg of Same birds and songbirds caries no knowa 
 
penalties, why not feed the deer. 
 
     The main difference lies In the effect of artificial feeding on the

 
supply of natural foods.