. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters), no. 46-50. Forests and forestry. tloiibtcdiy cxci't some iiifiiioiu'c on the palatibility and dosirability of the plants an browse. A study of the relation between chemicals in the soil and browsing by deer is being* started at the Greenwood Foi-pst Tree Nursery in Huntingdon County under the supervision of the Penn- sylvania Forest Research Institute. Another observation that indicates the selectivity of deer feedin^r in relation to burned areas is this: Where mountain laurel is found j>rowing in association with rock oak on sites
. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters), no. 46-50. Forests and forestry. tloiibtcdiy cxci't some iiifiiioiu'c on the palatibility and dosirability of the plants an browse. A study of the relation between chemicals in the soil and browsing by deer is being* started at the Greenwood Foi-pst Tree Nursery in Huntingdon County under the supervision of the Penn- sylvania Forest Research Institute. Another observation that indicates the selectivity of deer feedin^r in relation to burned areas is this: Where mountain laurel is found j>rowing in association with rock oak on sites where no forest fires liave burned for at least ten years, the deer have fretiuently browned tlie laurel almost to the point of extinction. On sites where mountain laurel is found p^rowing in association with rock oak and where fires have burned within the past ten years, the laurel is barely touched. The inference is that deer avoid as much as possible feeding on areas after the third year following fire. There are those who advocate the controlled periodic burning of forests, believing that waning supply of deer food, caused by an over- abundance of deer, would tliereby be increased. The fallacy and selfishness of this argument are obvious. Granted that the burin"- of forest cover at times results in a temporary increase of avaihd)!*' deer broAvse, the attendant losses to growing timber and to small game, such as wild turkey, grouse, rabbits, and scjuirrels, would be all out of proportion to the meager benefit to the deer herd. Anv svstem of management that sacrifices timber for game, or vice versa, or that discriminates against one type of hunter for the benefit of another, is indefensible (14). DKKH < AUKVIX; ( VI»A( ITY OF FOKKSTKI) AREAS The deer problem in Pennsylvania is only i)art of a much greater and nation-wide problem of game management in relation to forested areas (12). As baffling as Avas the original problem of conserving and building up the big game
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