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Penn State Deer Study

Unread postby csoult » Sat Jan 10, 2015 3:04 am

Some interesting information. They have tagged a few bucks and does, and are sharing the data points.
http://ecosystems.psu.edu/research/projects/deer


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Re: Penn State Deer Study

Unread postby bones09 » Sat Jan 10, 2015 3:55 am

Pretty cool study.
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Unread postby csoult » Sat Jan 10, 2015 4:18 am

If you click on the more news there are some more posts. It's all really good information.
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Re: Penn State Deer Study

Unread postby pitz0022 » Sat Jan 10, 2015 5:52 am

Lots of good stuff in there. I'll need to study it more in depth. Thanks for posting.
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Re: Penn State Deer Study

Unread postby KLEMZ » Sun Jan 11, 2015 3:34 am

In the "Super Smart Bucks" blog, the video of the bucks location during rifle season is very cool! He sure spent alot of time in a small area. I noticed he bedded in the furthest right blue area the most. The students doing the study said they did not know what type of vegetation he was bedding in (thick mountain laural or simply open woods, while taking advantage of the terrain).

Well, I did a little cyber snooping and came up with something interesting I think.

This topo of the area shows where he bedded the most
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This aerial shows the exact same spot (with no leaf cover)
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This is a close up of the preferred bedding spot
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You can see he is in a patch of thicker vegetation (mountain laural?), looking out over a steep open hardwoods slope!

Now I realize you would have to travel there on foot to verify this, but it sure looks like what is going on.
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Re: Penn State Deer Study

Unread postby kurt » Sun Jan 11, 2015 5:26 am

Very cool

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