White Tailed Deer Browsing Behavior

Managers focus on white-tailed deer as an economic commodity, as hunting leases can be an important source of income (Bartoskewitz et al. 2003). It is suggested that white-tailed deer are probably the most popular big game animal in the world (Hiller 1996). In the United States, white-tailed deer contribute billions of dollars to the nation’s economy each year in the form of hunts, which support wildlife research and management (Hiller 1996). Many landowners and managers have adopted the use of supplemental feed to sustain larger body mass and population size (Bartoskewitz et al. 2003).
Previous studies have documented the relationship between supplemental feed and white-tailed deer browsing behavior. For example, Timmons et al. (2014) conducted