Here is the QDMA take on dispersal.  Seems to conclude that female agression during fawning does not disperse bucks and the older a buck population is the dispersal of yearlings will decrease.

Concludes that not all yearling bucks disperse and the main cause of dispersal is breeding competition among yearling bucks in the fall.  Also, harvesting more mature does can decrease dispersal rates as well.

Some very intersting stuff here.  Check it out.

http://www.qdma.com/articles/details.asp?id=94

You can read a great deal about buck dispersal in Pennsylvania by going to the Game Commission web site at www.pgc.state.pa.us clicking into the deer management section and then to research. There is whole report on buck dispersal in this state. It is actually one of the largest and most up to date studies ever done.

I would provide a link to it but I don’t know how.

Dick Bodenhorn  

Not sure if this is exactly what Dick is referring too.. BUT it's some darn good reading....

http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?a=465&q=152785


Dick once you get the url ( address) of a page all you have to do is type the following "tags" before and after that address....

[url] goes in front

then the http://www address.com

then finally [/url] after the address  

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Dr Trout wrote : Not sure if this is exactly what Dick is referring too.. BUT it's some darn good reading.... http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.asp?a=465&q=152785 Dick once you get the url ( address) of a page all you have to do is type the following "tags" before and after that address.... [url] goes in front then the http://www address.com then finally [/url] after the address

Thanks Doc!

That is the same study. Though I was referring to the scientific reviewed report, this might be even better for general reading and simplicity of understanding.

I couldn’t even get the web page url to copy let alone bring it over to the post unless I retyped it all. I think it has something to do either with the type file the report was done in or most likely just my computer knowledge.

Dick Bodenhorn  

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I've spent a good bit of time this morning reading the info that is on the PGC's web site regarding buck dispersal and tracking. I will agree these studies are very interesting.

However I have a question. I notice that the study only involved bucks and their dispersal.

The study didn't mention female deer. Is it thought that does pretty much remain in the area where they were born all their lives? Is there any research where only females were trapped, tagged, and tracked? If so I would like to read that info also.

Thanks
Nissan

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Nissan wrote : I've spent a good bit of time this morning reading the info that is on the PGC's web site regarding buck dispersal and tracking. I will agree these studies are very interesting. However I have a question. I notice that the study only involved bucks and their dispersal. The study didn't mention female deer. Is it thought that does pretty much remain in the area where they were born all their lives? Is there any research where only females were trapped, tagged, and tracked? If so I would like to read that info also. Thanks Nissan

Female deer been studied in two separate areas of the state the past few years. I think there is another year or two left in that study then I suspect they might have some better input on some of those questions. The present study is geared more toward determining female deer mortality causes, the affects of hunting and the female movements to avoid hunting pressure. But, I suspect the study will provide some answers concerning doe dispersal of movements within the two study areas.

Most studies of the past have shown little female dispersal out of the home range of birth with most movement seemly influenced by suitable food, bedding, fawning and wintering habitats being the primary motivation toward female movement.

I suspect there already is or soon will be a link to the doe study on the Game Commission web site. Once the study is complete and this pending court case is behind the agency I am confident the study methods and findings will be released to the public.

Dick Bodenhorn

RSB,

Thanks for the info regarding female deer and the studies on them.

Please check your "private messages"

Nissan

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Nissan wrote : RSB, Thanks for the info regarding female deer and the studies on them. Please check your "private messages" Nissan

By darn I just found the private message function. It took me a while to figure out where it was.

I’m glad you left me know I had messages.

Dick Bodenhorn