Advanced White-Tailed Deer Management: The Nutrition-Population Density Sweet Spot Fulbright Timothy Edward

In 2003, a cadre of researchers set out to determine what combination of supplemental or natural nutrition and white-tailed deer population density would produce the largest antlers on bucks without harming vegetation. Fulbright, Charles A. They would come to call this combination "the sweet spot." Over the course of their 15-year experiment, conducted through the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Timothy E.

Hewitt, Don A. DeYoung, David G. Draeger, and 25 graduate students tracked the effects of deer density and enhanced versus natural nutrition on vegetation conditions.

Through wet years and dry, in a semiarid environment with frequent droughts, they observed deer nutrition and food habits and analyzed population dynamics. Containing the results of this landmark, longitudinal study, in keeping with the Kleberg Institute's mission, this