Living with White-tailed Deer - Free Deer Management Workshop May 28, 2008

Imagine you live in a beautiful, wooded suburban community centered around a large park area. There are an increased number of cases of Lyme disease among people using the park and accidents between deer and vehicles are on the rise, causing injury and property damage. Deer are browsing local gardens, damaging valuable landscaping, and destroying valuable ground cover. The population of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) is far above the carrying capacity of the terrain and there are no longer natural predators to control the deer numbers. Groups representing homeowners, park officials, wildlife advocates, and animal rights activists all have their own positions on solving this problem.

The Quality Deer Management Association, a non-profit wildlife conservation organization, is teaming up with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission and a North Carolina State University Master Gardener/ Bass Lake Park Naturalist to conduct a 2.5-hour wildlife management workshop on Wednesday, May 28th from 6:00 pm 8:30pm at the NCSU Centennial Campus. There will be no cost to attend, and select continuing education credits are available.

This workshop will feature in-depth discussion about the problems that result when the numbers of deer in a community exceed habitat carrying capacity; and discuss possible solutions that might be employed. Registrants will receive research-based information via presentations and handouts that should assist them in sorting through the pool of media propaganda on deer.

Event submitted by Eventful.com on behalf of CapeFearRiverBranchQDMA.