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Unlike other books on white-tailed deer in places where rainfall is relatively high and the environment stable, this book takes an ecological approach to deer management in the semiarid lands of Oklahoma, Texas, and northern Mexico. These are the least productive of white-tail habitats, where periodic drought punctuates long-term weather patterns. The book's focus on this landscape across political borders is one of its original and lasting contributions. Another is its contention that good management is based on ecological principles that guide the manager's thinking about:
Habitat Requirements of White-Tailed Deer White-Tailed Deer Nutrition Carrying Capacity Habitat Manipulation Predators Hunting
Timothy Edward Fulbright is a Regents Professor and the Meadows Professor in Semiarid Land Ecology at the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute, Texas A&M University-Kingsville.
J. Alfonso Ortega-S., is an associate professor at the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute, Texas A&M University-Kingsville.
| 1 | Habitat requirements of white-tailed deer | 3 |
| 2 | White-tailed deer nutrition | 37 |
| 3 | Ecological principles underlying habitat management | 59 |
| 4 | Estimating carrying capacity | 87 |
| 5 | The cow : livestock and white-tailed deer habitat | 103 |
| 6 | The plow : food plots | 121 |
| 7 | The ax, plow, and fire : brush management for white-tailed deer | 139 |
| 8 | The gun : harvest and management planning | 181 |
| App. 1 | Common and scientific names of selected animals and plants | 193 |
| App. 2 | Metric-English system unit equivalents | 197 |
| App. 3 | Determining adequate sample sizes | 198 |
| App. 4 | Planting summary for selected forages | 199 |
Overview
Unlike other books on white-tailed deer in places where rainfall is relatively high and the ...