. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters), no. 46-50. Forests and forestry. foresters considered 8 to 16 adult red deer, not eoiintinj? j^oun^, should be the limit for 2,500 acres. In Bohemia 15 to 35 head of red deer could be supported by 2,500 acres, but any addition would result in overstockinjr. European experience considered one red deer the equal of two fallow deer or four roe deer (6). Dr. C. A. Schenk (Jo) advocated limitinj;- the number of deer in the Southern Appalachian forests to 150 Virjjinia deer to 10,000 acres, or one deer to each 66 acres. Another writer state
. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters), no. 46-50. Forests and forestry. foresters considered 8 to 16 adult red deer, not eoiintinj? j^oun^, should be the limit for 2,500 acres. In Bohemia 15 to 35 head of red deer could be supported by 2,500 acres, but any addition would result in overstockinjr. European experience considered one red deer the equal of two fallow deer or four roe deer (6). Dr. C. A. Schenk (Jo) advocated limitinj;- the number of deer in the Southern Appalachian forests to 150 Virjjinia deer to 10,000 acres, or one deer to each 66 acres. Another writer states that in Northern Michij^an 750 acres are capable of supporting" 100 deer in good con- dition the year round (I). It is doubtful whether a ratio as low as this, one deer to seven and one-half acres, should ever be established under management in Pennsylvania. The writer, who has interviewed man}' people familiar with Penn- sylvania deer habits, has found that usually opinions as to the deer carrying capacity of forests have been based more on guess than on study. Various estimates received have been to the effect that a single deer requires anywhere from four to fifty acres. AVhereas in European practice it may riHjuire forty to fifty acres to sui)port one deer, the writer believes that in Pennsylvania considerable less land acreage is required. When contrasting Pennsylvania with Euroi)ean conditions, we must remember that forestry practices on the Continent date back three hundred years. It is characteristic of many European forests to have an even aged growth and a more or less clean forest floor with verv little undergrowth. Accordingly the (piantity of browse available to deer is considerably less than in the more brushy, younger, and uneven aged forests of Pennsylvania, where a dense undergrowth normally obtains. In much of our uneven aged hardwood forests, especially in the oak-chestnut type and the beech-birch-maple type, it would appear that adefjuate food supplie
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