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- on one of the species of deer
in which females are antlerless.
Range requirements
For winter grazing [A.E.] Parsild figures
a requirement of 50 acres per head.
10 acres of summer range per
head is usually adequate.
Winter food is largely leaves
of Betula glandulosa [underlined], twigs of this
shrub, willow twigs + lichens.
I saw them eating willow leaves
avidly also the leaves of
cotton sedge, Carex, grasses,
Dryas + a wide variety of herbs.
They are avid for mushrooms
+ the mushroom season from
late July to early September is
one of the times when the deer
are hardest to control.
Parasites [underlined]:- Warbles + Bots seem to be
the major parasites. I took 7 warbles
+ 1 bot on the wing about a
tethered deer in 2 hours. The
warbles seemed to land almost
anywhere on the animal with
preference for the lower sides
+ belly. Only one landed on the
lower leg. The deer could detect
the presence of the fly the moment it
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