About the Deer-Forest Study
Pennsylvania forests face many challenges - invasive plants, insect outbreaks, soil acidity, tree diseases, and even deer. This study is being conducted to better understand the role of deer in the context of all these challenges and to help Pennsylvania’s forest and wildlife managers better manage deer and the forest.
September 25, 2024
Did you pass our quiz?
We had a lot of fun with our 10th Anniversary Quiz. And now we are here to tell you how […]
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September 18, 2024
Happy Anniversary!
The Deer Forest blog is celebrating a big milestone – 10 years! I can hardly believe it myself. I’ve been […]
September 6, 2024
Pennsylvania’s Wild Kingdom
When I was a kid, I was a voracious consumer of facts. We had the Encyclopedia Americana and all the […]
August 6, 2024
Fat Does and Big Antlers
I am here again to sing the praises of the best kind of deer – those WITHOUT antlers. I have […]
July 23, 2024
Closed for Renovation!
Renovations are exciting. Sure they can be a headache but when complete, it’s like a whole new world. Many stores […]
July 19, 2024
Daniel and Deer
This is Daniel. He has been my neighbor for 9 years. I’ve known his family since I moved to Pennsylvania […]
June 10, 2024
Alone Time
White-tailed deer are social creatures. It is rare to see just one deer. And even if you can only spot […]
May 29, 2024
There Goes the Neighborhood
White-tailed deer walking through boreal forest Photo Credit Melanie Dickie
May 14, 2024
Labor and Delivery
Fawning season is fast approaching and babies of all shapes, sizes and persuasions (deer aren’t the only ones proliferating) will […]
May 6, 2024
Totality
Unless you have been living under a rock (or the moon), you are familiar with totality. On April 8, 2024, […]
April 24, 2024
Salacious Headlines
We have all stood in the grocery store checkout line and stared with curiosity, horror, and disbelief at the headlines […]
March 28, 2024
Decades in the Making
In September 2014, we published our first blog post. Ah, the good old days when getting blog ideas was easy. […]