Abstract
The kind and amount of deer food varied between forest types and with rainfall in an Arkansas Ozark forest. The sparsely timbered cedar glades and bottomland hardwoods produced the most herb- age and evergreen browse. They received heaviest deer use when mast was scarce. The more densely stocked hardwood types grew less forage but were the main source of winter food in good mast years. Average mast yields were 5-10 times greater than average winter browse yields. This paper compares annual and seasonal deer food crops and their importance to deer maintenance in four forest types in the southeastern Ozarks. Data were col- lected within two stocked enclosures, one approximately 600 acres and the other 675 acres in size, on the Sylamore Experimental Forest in north Arkansas. Both enclosures included all four forest types in varying amounts, and the values in this report are for both tracts combined.
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