Three management strategies that should be implemented for whitetail deer in northern Wisconsin include deeryards, forage areas, and hiding cover (Gullion 1984). The home range for whitetails is less than 1 mi2 (2.49 km2) if there is ample food.
Food requirements of white-tailed deer in Wisconsin vary throughout the state. Deer within this management unit need a water source, grassy openings for grazing, and high nutritional foods for browsing. Whitetails need 10-12 lbs (4.5-5.4 kg) of food a day, but their diet changes according to the seasons (Rogers 1981). In general, whitetails tend to forage on herbaceous vegetation in the warm months and on woody vegetation during winter. First choice foods are northern white cedar, red maple, hemlock, American mountain ash, sweet fern, alternate leaf dogwood, red-osier dogwood, American yew, staghorn sumac, and wintergreen (Rogers 1981). These foods are the most nutritionous for deer in this region. Other food choices decrease in......
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