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Episode 050 - Can Supplemental Feeding Impact the Plant Community?
Deer University
English - June 30, 2021 18:28 - 54 minutes - 74.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 482 ratingsWilderness Sports Science Natural Sciences deerbiology deermanagement hunting whitetaileddeer Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 049 – Can Supplemental Feeding Increase Disease Risk?
Supplemental feeding has become a common practice, but deer biologists are often concerned about the indirect effects and how the practice could degrade habitat quality and impact the native plant community. In this episode we interview Beau Navarre, a graduate student in the MSU Deer Lab, about his research where he measured all sorts of plant data around feeders that concentrated deer. So, does feeding affect the native plant community? Well, it depends.