These locations provide tree buds, leaves, and key plants (think greenbriar) that deer consume to make it through winter. Many short-growing tree species, such as dogwood, provide lower branches with ...

Nor should the importance of the species be overlooked in contributing to the wilderness experience ... increase with day length in late winter and spring, decline in summer and then peak again in ...

You will come to understand how they run. In a harsh winter, deer spend great amounts of time lying under heavy hemlocks and pines where it is warmer and the snow is not as deep. In the winter ...

The bear activity in winter months is almost certainly due to the growing population of Ezo shika deer, he said. About 90 percent of a brown bear’s diet consists of acorns, grasses and other plants.