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Location
Ithaca, New York
Start Date
27-9-1983 12:00 AM
Description
Crop depredation by white-tailed deer (Odocoileus uirginianus) has been examined and discussed by wildlife managers since at least the early 1930's (Leopold 1933:283). As with most aspects of game management in those early years, managers' efforts focused on the biological parameters of depredation and control. In the 1960's a few researchers began examining the social implications of deer management and found farmers to be surprisingly tolerant of most deer damage (McDowell and Benson 1960, McNeil 1962:81, Flyger and Thoerig 1962:48). Because of changing agricultural, habitat, and deer population conditions, studies of farmer tolerance of deer damage were initiated in New York (Brown et al. 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980). This research helped to systematically quantify and apply the concept of farmer tolerance of deer damage as a determinant of deer range carrying capacity on agricultural lands in New York State.
Recommended Citation
Decker, D. J., Sanyal, N., Brown, T. L., Smolka, R. A., & Connelly, N. A. (1983). Reanalysis of farmer willingness to tolerate deer damage in western New York. In Decker, D. J. (Ed.), The First Eastern Wildlife Damage Control Conference (pp. 37-45). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University.
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Reanalysis of Farmer Willingness to Tolerate Deer Damage in Western New York
Ithaca, New York
Crop depredation by white-tailed deer (Odocoileus uirginianus) has been examined and discussed by wildlife managers since at least the early 1930's (Leopold 1933:283). As with most aspects of game management in those early years, managers' efforts focused on the biological parameters of depredation and control. In the 1960's a few researchers began examining the social implications of deer management and found farmers to be surprisingly tolerant of most deer damage (McDowell and Benson 1960, McNeil 1962:81, Flyger and Thoerig 1962:48). Because of changing agricultural, habitat, and deer population conditions, studies of farmer tolerance of deer damage were initiated in New York (Brown et al. 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980). This research helped to systematically quantify and apply the concept of farmer tolerance of deer damage as a determinant of deer range carrying capacity on agricultural lands in New York State.