Exclosures Help Demonstrate Impact of Deer Overbrowsing – All Otsego

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Exclosures Help Demonstrate Impact of Deer Overbrowsing

By SANDRA BRIGHT
ONEONTA

As you stroll through Wilber Park in Oneonta, you may notice three new fenced-in areas, small enough to beg the question of purpose. These are deer exclosures, meant to monitor and show the impacts on the environment of overbrowsing by white-tailed deer.






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