Black-tailed Deer in B.C

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Deer may be cute but their growing population is bad news for B.C. forests, birds. Here's why.

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Indigenous people in B.C. once feasted on a host of edible plants from the forest — particularly the bulbs of camas lilies and on honeysuckle.

Researchers have found forest terrain in some regions has become more barren mainly because they have too many deer.

The removal of large predators in Ontario and the Eastern U.S. over the past half century has led to an explosion in hungry white-tailed deer.

Deer populations decline and plant species return when even a modest amount of hunting is permitted.

It’s crucial to face up to the reality of an overpopulation of deer in some regions if we want to return many of B.C. 's southwest forests to something close to their original vegetative profuseness, experts say.

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