This study involved the use of the two-choice preference test to determine the taste reactions of buck and doe Columbian black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus) to ascending concentrations of water extracts of Douglas fir, red alder, cascara, western hemlock and bitterbrush; to an ethanol extract of Douglas fir, and to...
Sitka black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus sitkensis Sm.) prefer understory forages growing beneath a forest canopy despite a greater abundance of the same plant species in forest clearings. This research examined
responses of the deciduous shrub - blueberry (Vaccinium ovalifolium), to test the hypotheses that 1) forage is less nutritious and...
Four studies were conducted on late-summer diet quality and quantity of cattle (Bos taurus), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus), and elk (Cervus elaphus) in response to prior grazing by cattle and elk on mixed-conifer rangelands and on related research techniques. In our first study we assessed a photographic technique to...