[Re]Generation Gaps: Impacts of White-Tailed Deer on Forest Resources

Jared Diamond, an internationally renown conservation biologist and regular contributor to Natural History magazine, compares visiting a forest with high deer densities to"visiting an apparently thriving country and suddenly realizing that it was inhabited by old people, and that most of the infants and children had died." The Allegheny hardwood forest of Northwestern Pennsylvania is such a "country" and scientists at the Forestry Sciences Lab in Warren, Pa. are studying to find out why, and how we can revitalize the "youth" in this "country" called the Allegheny hardwood forest. This article was written by Barbara J. McGuinness of the Northeastern Forest Experiment Station for the PAEE Journal 1996.

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