Abstract
browsing by deer there has been little consideration of methods of increasing the food supply. The purpose of the present study was to determine how to increase the amount of browse by methods inducing sprouting and to evaluate the practicability of such methods. In several deer yards in the Superior National Forest, northeastern Minnesota, the area in which this study was conducted, overbrowsing is widespread and presents a major problem for foresters and game managers. Hill (1938) has summarized conditions on this forest by stating that 12,000 deer die every winter from malnutrition while only 4,000 are taken by hunters during the open
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