A lot of valuable information is given to the reader throughout the book Ultimate Deer Food Plots by Ed Spinazzola. Personally, I’ve been able to take everything presented in the text relatively easily with the help of my prior knowledge. All of the advice in this book is relative to my life every year. If I had to choose however, the points that have stuck with me the most are: the importance of correcting soil as well as past vs. present land management layouts. Both of these topics are so important when trying to create great hunting land. Starting with soil correction, I have always known how critical it is to have good soil (based off of my own food plot results). My dad and I’s first food plots didn’t turn out great, as expected. Barely…
Some limiting factors for a green foxtail might be competition for resources, predation, lack of moisture, and any occurring natural disaster. The green foxtail would experience a competition of resources because the area in which it is located is very small, but has a lot of plants, meaning that the green foxtail does not have an area to itself. Furthermore, because of how it is located in a small area, bordered by a path, its seeds do not have a high possibility of traveling far when most of the dirt is occupied with another plant, limiting its expansion in population. Competition of resources and predation are both dependent limiting factors. The green foxtail would have to encounter predation such as grasshoppers, aphids, stinkbugs, gamebirds, songbirds, mice, and squirrels due to how they all seek green foxtails as a source of food, limiting the growth of green foxtails. Another limiting factor is the overexposure of sunlight, which is an independent limiting factor. Green foxtails are very flexible by having a various range of being able to live in different…
The Mule deer is a deer very populated in the western North America. It is named for its ears, which are large like those of the Mule. There are believed to be several subspecies, including the black-tailed deer. The adult Mule deer weigh 130 lbs and 5 feet long. It’s gestation period is 203 days. They are herbivores. A startled, Mule deer will stiff-legged jumps with all four feet hitting the ground together. Each spring a buck's antlers start to regrow almost immediately after the old antler are shed. A Mule deer antlers are bifurcated; they fork as they grow, rather than forking from a single main beam. Mule deer have eight predators they are humans coyotes,…
Part 1. Population Biology is an online virtual lab that will illustrate how competition affects population growth. Follow the instructions given. Two species of unicellular organisms are used to determine patterns of population growth. Run the program to determine the growth pattern of each species.…
As you walk the downtown streets, and area of Cranbrook B.C you will often see and meet, not only your domestic house pets, but the many urban deer walking through your yard or down the streets. The deer in the area are usually not harmful and will usually run away if approached. The deer in the area only bother the people by eating there well thought out gardens, trees and plants. In the spring the deer can be a little more aggressive and have known to stalk, and attack animals as to protect their newborn fawns. The deer have been an ongoing problem in the community. There has been a deer cull activated in the past few years, allowing an organization to catch and kill up to 20-50 deer per cull. Some say this is inhumane as the deer are trapped…
The white tailed deer is a very common site in this here great mitten state. It seems like everywhere you look you see a white tailed deer. Down in the lower part of michigan the deer have a variety of different food choices. Since the deer are herbivores and there are a vast number of farms the deer have lots of different crop choices to choose from . One of the most common crops in michigan is corn, so one of the major food sources for deer is the farmer's corn. Lots of famers think that the white tailed deer are a big nuisance, deer can eat a lot of corn. Farmers want the number of deer in their area to decrease, so they gone so they can get a special license called a “Deer Damage Permit”. This lets the farmer kill a certain amount of deer that are a damaging their farm.…
The animal I would like to speak about in the Deciduous Forest would have to be the White Tailed Deer.The White Tailed Deer is à mammal that is à herbivore, the White Tailed Deer stomachs only allow them to ingest certain foods. The foods they can eat are twigs, leaves, fruits, nuts, grass, corn and many more. The “white tailed” refers to the backside of the tail which displays when on à high alert. White tailed deer are mostly found in North America from Southern Canada to Central America. These deers can weigh anywhere from 110 to 300 pounds, White Tailed Deers are very nervous and shy, they wave their tail from side to side when they are startled. The antlers on these interesting deers are not used for killing but they are used for mating…
Fun Fact: The largest deer known to man was the Irish Deer, which could grow up to 7 feet tall and resembled a…
As the population of whitetail deer continues to rise in Kentucky, chances of taking one increase as well. In “Kentucky Deer Season 2013: Hunting Forecast” Darren Warner of OutdoorLife.com states that “The current statewide population estimate for Kentucky's deer herd is about 900,000 animals.” Due to the abundancy of deer, during the apocalypse they will be a great source of food for you and your group. However, after the kill, most hunters do not know what to do next, and those who do often do not take the most ethical route to processing a deer. Compocalypse students need to know how to efficiently process a deer because venison will provide large, protein packed meal during the apocalypse and can also provide skin to make clothing out of,…
Changes in forage production may affect potential productivity of herbivore populations, especially in stochastic environments, which may alter the predictions set by general theories (Fulbright and Ortega-S 2006). Diets selected by herbivores are a function of the nutritional and chemical characteristics of forages, the herbivore’s nutritional requirements, and the time available to forage (Timmons et al. 2010). Optimal foraging theory predicts animals promote their fitness maximizing the net rate of energy gain through different foraging strategies (Hughes 1993). A premise in ungulate foraging theory is that as population density increases, resource competition increases, resulting in the depletion of palatable plant species (Pianka 1988).…
In the case study “Too Many Deer,” members of the local scientific community and residents of the area came together to find a solution to the increasing deer population in Wesselman Woods. In accord to town hall tradition a diverse number of people put forth a variety of ideas. Finding the best idea for controlling the deer population ultimately relied more heavily on the values of individuals in the community. Some put forth straightforward solutions such as luring the herd to one place and shooting them their or introducing hunters to the are for a short time. In contrast, other members of the community had a more equalitarian view point and suggested we find an alternative to killing the deer or at least not be wasteful with the meat.…
It is a freezing twenty-two degrees outside. Even though it is still too dark to see, as you look over the hills, you see a breathtaking sunrise that will soon creep through the heavy fog. Every breath that you take is like smoke coming out of a dragon's nostrils. As you are waiting patiently, still, and quietly, you finally see your kill, the white-tail deer. Without a doubt, the white-tail deer should be hunted.…
The student acquired work related learning at Wenhau Services on the 1st of August 2012. On the first day at work the student was a bit nervous because she had never experience the working environment before. However after meeting and interacting with some of the staff who were friendly I soon felt welcome and settled in very well.…
Population Control: competition for limited resources among n species places a limit on how much any one population can grow beyond those limits, its size decreases from changes in the birth rates and death rates of its members. In nature, no population can grow indefinitely.…
* Prior to farming, population size in any one area was limited by the availability of wild game, grain, berries, seeds, and nuts.…
