Localized management for reducing white-tailed deer populations

Researchers have focused on the summer home ranges of eight social groups of female white-tailed deer in Huntington Wildlife Forest, Newcomb, NY, to test the prediction that female deer will not move into neighbouring low-density areas where other social groups are present. The findings support the view that areas of reduced density will remain because deer on the surrounding landscape will not respond to densities in neighbouring areas. It was established that social groups are mainly independent of each other in terms of geography, behaviour and genetics.