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White-Tailed Deer:
Their Foods & Management in the Cross Timbers
Table of Contents & Preface
Introduction
Habitat requirements
General concepts
Food requirements
Methods
used to gather data
Overall
use of forage classes
Seasonal
use of forages
Specific
seasonal deer diets
Spring
Summer
Fall
Winter
Summary
Cover requirements
Water requirements
Space requirements
Habitat management
General concepts
Food management
Cover management
Water management
Space management
Population health/evaluation
Introduction & aging deer
Body size & antler characteristics
Fat deposits
Reproductive success
Population management
Introduction
Population inventory
Harvest
records
Deer
surveys
Population regulation
Potential
mng't goals
Appendix A:
Plants of the NFWU
Appendix B:
Deer diets on the NFWU
Appendix C:
Pictures and descriptions of
important deer food plants in the
Cross Timbers region
Glossary for Appendix C
Common names: box elder, ash-leaved maple
Scientific names: Acer negundo (Negundo interius, N. nuttallii)
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Seasons of significant use: spring, summer
Characteristics: Native, perennial tree to 75.0 feet. Bark on young growth is smooth, thin, and green changing to pale gray or brown with shallow ridges and fissures with age; leaves deciduous, opposite, oddpinnately compound with 3-9 leaflets; leaflets ovate-elliptic or oval-obovate with irregularly serrate, lobed, or entire margins; plant is dioecious; fruit is a double samara with a single seed at the base of each wing, ripening September-October. Flowers February-May.
Plant community type: Primarily in wooded bottomlands.
Comments: A common secondary successional tree in disturbed wooded bottomland sites.
More Plant Photos
and Descriptions:
Appendix C: Plants by Common Name
Appendix C: Plants by Scientific Name
Appendix C: Plants Listed by Family