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Research provides deer pointers

Jerry Davis For Agri-View
Sep 27, 2025
Sep 27, 2025

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Autumn’s hard and soft mast are plentiful but not all people-edible.

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A female goldfinch lunches on tiny yellow coneflower dried fruits.

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A white-tailed fawn is now a mirror image of its mother.

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Elderberry fruits are usually taken by birds and deer before they can become pie filling.

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Sulfur-shelf polypore fungi decorate a red-oak stump where the fungus grew out and fruited after decomposing part of the wood.

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A large-antlered buck picks a soybean field to feed in at dusk.

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Wisconsin’s ongoing archery season for deer is providing continuous updates on electronically registered animals. The updates are posted weekly on the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources harvest-data website. Visit dnr.wisconsin.gov and search for “deer harvest” for more information.

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Jerry Davis is a freelance outdoors writer. Contact him at sivadjam@mhtc.net or 608-924-1112 for more information.