The Deer-Forest Blog

While beautiful, that tangled mess and those little petals on the ground don’t make it any easier to find fawns.

We know male deer disperse. Because this behavior has persisted, we know there must be a benefit (dispersers pass on more genes compared those that do not disperse). But why would the deer cross the road or river or mountain in the first place?

It has been about a week into the critical 3-week period of fawns dropping (does giving birth), but we didn’t seem to be finding any fawns. Until today.

The mystery of male dispersal has vanished with the advent of the radio- and GPS- collar. Now we can determine the who, when, and how far for those boys that hit the road.

Want to work in the wildlife field? Then you better lace up your running shoes.

June is not only fawning season but graduation season as well. Graduation marks an end but also a beginning. Is it a coincidence that graduation and fawning season coincide? For deer, June is just as exciting and life changing as graduating.

And what do mollusks have to do with deer?

Our field crews have the best offices!

We have four teams of field techs searching for fawns and monitoring vegetation data. Here’s some of the fun they’re finding in Penn’s Woods!

The crew captured the first fawn of the year – and the project – on Saturday on Rothrock State Forest.

Recent research has set off much debate, but the facts about what works and what doesn’t are often overlooked.

Trapping season does not mark the end of field work. The forest (and its many inhabitants) are still exciting even when you’re looking for deer poop.