Links

National Park Service information on deer:

• National Park Service Natural Resource Fact Sheet: White-tailed Deer in National Parks
• Deer Management Simulator
• Catoctin Mountain Park - Mammals
• Catoctin Mountain Park - Park Planning: White-tailed Deer Management Plan Environmental Impact Statement
• Fire Island National Seashore - Fire Island Deer
• Deer at Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site
• Manassas National Battlefield Park - Mammals
• Morristown National Historic Park - Mammals
• Shenandoah National Park - White-tailed Deer Issues and Management
• Valley Forge National Historical Park - White-tailed Deer Management

Information for communities with deer:

• Wildlife Damage Management Fact Sheet Series: White-Tailed Deer
• Wildlife Damage Management Fact Sheet Series: Reducing Deer-Vehicle Crashes
• Reducing Deer Damage to Home Gardens and Landscape Plantings
• NPS Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program
• Northeast Wildlife Damage Management Cooperative

Information for teachers:

• Lesson Plan: White-tailed Deer: How Many Are There?
• LearnNPS
• NPS Education Internet Resources for Teachers
• NPS Research Learning Center Clearinghouse

Information for planners:

• NPS Civic Engagement Website
• NPS Partnerships Website
• NPS Toolbox for Public Participation
• NPS Conservation Study Institute
• A Handbook for Managers of Cultural Landscapes with Natural Resource Values
• MIT-USGS Science Impact Collaborative: Testing New Approaches to Joint Fact-Finding
• National Forest Foundation and USDA Forest Service Partnership Resource Center
• US Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Partnership Website
• US Department of the Interior Office of Collaborative Action and Dispute Resolution
• US Environmental Protection Agency Public Involvement Home
• US Fish & Wildlife Service Partnerships Home
• USGS Fort Collins Science Center: Policy Analysis & Science Assistance
• US Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution

Suggested Popular Reading

Popular Non-fiction

Baron, D. 2004. The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature. New York: Norton.

Dillard, A. 1974. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. New York: Harper's Magazine Press.

Gladwell, M. 2000. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. New York: Back Bay Books.

Kingsolver, B. 2002. Small Wonder. New York: HarperCollins.

Leopold, A. 1968. A Sand County Almanac. New York: Oxford University Press.

McPhee, J. 1971. Encounters with the Archdruid. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

Nelson, R. 1997. Heart and Blood: Living with Deer in America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Popular Fiction

Kingsolver, B. 2001. Prodigal Summer. New York: HarperCollins.

Suggested Academic Reading

National Parks

Macintosh, B. 2005. The National Parks: Shaping the System. U.S. Department of the Interior.

Runte, A. 1997. National Parks : The American Experience. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

Sellars, R.W. 1997. Preserving Nature in the National Parks. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Wagner, F.H., R. Foresta, R.B. Gill, D.R. McCullough, M.R. Pelton, W.F. Porter, and H. Salwasser. 1995. Wildlife Policies in the U.S. National Parks. Washington, DC: Island Press.

Wright, R.G. 1992. Wildlife Research Management in the National Parks. Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

Wright, G. 1999. Wildlife management in the National Parks: Questions in search of answers. Ecological Applications 9(1):30-36.

Deer Management

Coffey, M.A. and G.H. Johnston. 1997. A planning process for managing white-tailed deer in protected areas: integrated pest management. Wildlife Society Bulletin 25(2):433-439.

Frost, H.C., G.L. Storm, M.J. Batcheller, and M.J. Lovallo. 1997. White-tailed deer management at Gettysburg National Military Park and Eisenhower National Historic Site. Wildlife Society Bulletin 25(2):462-469.

Naugle, R.E., A.T. Rutberg, H.B. Underwood, J.W. Turner, and I.K.M. Liu. 2002. Field testing of immunocontraception on white-tailed deer(Odocoileus virginianus) on Fire Island National Seashore, New York, USA. Reproduction Suppl 60:143-153.

O'Connell,Jr. A.F., L. Elyse, and J. Zimmer. 1999. Annotated Bibliography of Methodologies to Census, Estimate, and Monitor the Size of White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) Populations. Boston, MA: U.S. Department of the Interior.

Porter, W.F. 1991. White-tailed Deer in Eastern Ecosystems: Implications for Management and Research in National Parks. Denver, CO: U.S. Department of the Interior.

Porter, W.F., M.A. Coffey, and J. Hadidian. 1994. In search of a litmus test: Wildlife management in the U.S. National Parks. Wildlife Society Bulletin 22(2):301-306.

Porter, W.F. and H.B. Underwood. 1999. Of elephants and blind men: Deer management in the U.S. National Parks. Ecological Applications 9(1):3-9.

Shafer-Nolan, A.L. 1997. The science and politics of deer overabundance at Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area, Ohio. Wildlife Society Bulletin 25(2):457-461.

Underwood, H.B. and W.F. Porter. 1991. Values and science: white-tailed deer management in Eastern National Parks. Transactions of the 56th North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference 67-73.

Human Dimensions

Bath, A.J. and J.W. Enck. 2003. Wildlife-human interactions in National Parks in Canada and the USA. Social Science Research Review 4(1):1-32.

Chase, L.C., D.J. Decker, and T.B. Lauber. 2004. Public participation in wildife management: What do stakeholders want? Society & Natural Resources 17:629-639.

Conservation Study Institute. 2001. Collaboration and Conservation: Lessons Learned in Areas Managed through National Park Service Partnerships. Conservation and Stewardship Publication No.3. Woodstock, VT: Conservation Study Institute.

Decker, D.J., T.L. Brown, W.F. Siemer, and Wildlife Society. 2001. Human Dimensions of Wildlife Management in North America. Bethesda, MD: The Wildlife Society.

Force, J., and D.J. Forester. 2002. Public Involvement in National Park Service Land Management. Social Science Research Review 3(1):1-28.

Pearce, W.B., and S.W. Littlejohn. 1997. Moral Conflict: When Social Worlds Collide. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Slaiby, B., and N.J. Mitchell. 2003. A Handbook for Managers of Cultural Landscapes with Natural Resource Values. Woodstock, VT: Conservation Study Institute

Susskind, L., and P. Field. 1996. Dealing with an Angry Public : The Mutual Gains Approach to Resolving Disputes. New York: Free Press.

Susskind, L., S. McKearnan, and J. Thomas-Larmer. 1999. The Consensus Building Handbook. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Wondolleck, J.M., and S.L. Yaffee. 2000. Making Collaboration Work : Lessons from Innovation in Natural Resource Management. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.

Wright, R.G. 1998. A review of the relationships between visitors and ungulates in national parks. Wildlife Society Bulletin 26(3):471-476.

Project Publications

Background

Leong, K.M., D.J. Decker, M.A. Wild, and J. Karish. 2006. Application of an issue evolution model to wildlife issues in National Parks. George Wright Forum 23(1):62-71.

Phase I

Leong, K. M., and D. J. Decker. 2005. White-tailed Deer Issues in NPS Units: Insights from Natural Resource Managers in the Northeastern U.S. HDRU Publ. 05-5. Dept. of Nat. Resour., N.Y.S. Coll. of Ag. and Life Sci., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. 27 p.

Leong, K.M., D.J. Decker, and M.A. Wild. 2006. Examining the Role of Community Participation in Biological Resource Management: Human Dimensions of Deer Issues in Northeastern National Park Service Units. In: Harmon, David, ed. People, Places, and Parks: Proceedings of the 2005 George Wright Society Conference on Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites. Hancock, Michigan: The George Wright Society. Pp. 108-114.

Phase IIIA

Leong, K. M., and D. J. Decker. 2007. Identifying Capacity for Local Community Participation in Wildlife Management Planning. Case 1: White-tailed Deer Issues at Fire Island National Seashore. HDRU Publ. 07-1. Dept. of Nat. Resour., N.Y.S. Coll. Ag. and Life Sci., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. 32 p.

Leong, K. M., and D. J. Decker. 2007. Identifying Capacity for Local Community Participation in Wildlife Management Planning. Case 2: White-tailed Deer Issues at Valley Forge National Historical Park. HDRU Publ. 07-3. Dept. of Nat. Resour., N.Y.S. Coll. Ag. and Life Sci., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. 30 p.

Leong, K. M., and D. J. Decker. 2007. Identifying Capacity for Local Community Participation in Wildlife Management Planning. Case 3: White-tailed Deer Issues at Prince William Forest Park. HDRU Publ. 07-4. Dept. of Nat. Resour., N.Y.S. Coll. Ag. and Life Sci., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. 28 p.