Daily Record: Our forests are degraded, but are deer or people to blame?
This forest in the state Berkshire Valley Wildlife Management Area in Roxbury has an understory that is 70 percent empty due to deer browsing.
Photo Credit: Mary Frank
All is not well in New Jersey’s forests. A case in point is the 423-acre Schiff Nature Preserve in the Mendhams, where 200 deer per square mile roam and browse.
“We have some of the highest deer densities anywhere in this part of Morris County,” said Michael Catania, president of Schiff Natural Lands Trust. “We should be down to 15 to 25 per square mile.”
Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 12/4/2011 11:00 AM 
Categories: Wildlife
Tags: new jersey forests deer Schiff Nature Preserve degradation
Categories: Wildlife
Tags: new jersey forests deer Schiff Nature Preserve degradation
We have deer problems in the south of the UK, but thankfully not in the same numbers as you do in New Jersey.
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