Managing white-tailed deer: Eastern north America

Biology and Management of White-Tailed Deer

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 481-500

  Diefenbach, Duane R ^a   Shea, Stephen M ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The St Joe Timberland Company   (United States)

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