The report contains information on climate, vegetation, hydrology, 

 fire, alligator holes, food supply and forage quality, harvest and 

 hunting pressure, and other considerations and describes the relation- 

 ship between these factors and the deer herd. (H.D.) 



Keywords: deer herds, life history. Everglades, Florida 



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Self, C.A., R.H. Chabreck, and T. Joanen. 1974. Food preferences of 

 deer in Louisiana coastal marshes. Proceedings of the twenty-eighth 

 annual conference of the Southeastern Association of Game and Fish 

 Commissioners, pp. 548-550. 



Food preferences were determined for white-tailed deer ( Odocoileus 

 virginianus ) in marshes and spoil areas along the Louisiana coast 

 by usinq feeding trails with captive deer and browse surveys. Fifty 

 species were offered to three deer during the feeding trials. The 

 species selected in largest amounts were Leptochloa fascicularis , 

 Scirpus olneyi , Iva annua , Echinochloa walteri , and Aeschynomene 

 virginica . Preferred food plants during the browse surveys along 

 marsh levees were Paspalum vaginatum . Mikania scandens , Bocapa 

 monnieri, Pan i cum dicnotomiflorum , and Leptochloa fascicularis . (A. A.) 



Keywords: coastal marshes, deer, food habits, Louisiana 



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Harlow, R.F. 1959. An evaluation of white-tailed deer habitat in Florida. 



Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission Technical Bulletin No. 5. 



64 pp. 



This study was undertaken to evaluate the vegetation types in Florida used 

 as deer habitat. Its primary objectives were: (1) compare the different 

 types of deer range in Florida, (2) list the major deer foods present 

 in each vegetation type, (3) review the most common land use practices 

 being carried out and attempt to evaluate them in terms of effects on 

 the plant cover, (4) provide data which may be useful in developing 

 techniques to improve deer habitat, and (5) determine the average 

 densities of both deer and cattle in the various types of vegetation 

 and evaluate the degree of competition between these two herbivores. 



Habitat types examined included flatwoods, pine-oak uplands, swamps, 

 hummocks, fresh water marshes, prairies, and sand pine-scrub oak ridges. 

 Geographical distribution of major vegetation types, comparison of 



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