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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: western ragweed
Scientific names: Ambrosia psilostachya (A. coronopifolia, A. lindheimeriana)
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Seasons of significant use: spring, summer (for Ambrosia spp. complex)
Characteristics: Native, perennial, warm season forb to 3.5 feet (mostly less than 2.0 feet). Stems erect; leaves mostly alternate, simple (deeply pinnately lobed), and almost sessile; plants monoecious; staminate inflorescences racemiform; pistillate inflorescences in small axillary clusters below the staminate inflorescences. Flowers July-October.
Plant community type: Open areas.
Comments: In soils with low phosphorous, it can be encouraged with late winter fertilization using 2.5 to 3 times more phosphate than nitrogen followed by a late winter discing one time over. Late spring discing discourages it.
More Plant Photos and Descriptions:
Appendix C: Plants by Common Name
Appendix C: Plants by Scientific Name
Appendix C: Plants Listed by Family