Deer and Ecosystem Management

Within the last decade, managers of public and private forestlands have contemplated managing forest resources in ways that address the desired (future) condition (outcomes) of these resources (Society of American Foresters 1993), which include all plant and animal species, non-commercial as well as commercial. Such management necessitates dealing with ecosystems and dovetails with an emerging management concept identified as"ecosystem management" (Society of American Foresters 1993; Grum-bine 1994; Salwasser 1994). This article was written by David S. deCalesta, included in the book The Science of Overabundance: Deer Ecology and Population Managment.

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