Want to learn more about Austin wildlife habit? Help white-tailed deer management in the Wild Basin Wildnerness Preserve?

Next semester, professor of Environmental Science and Policy is teaching a deer management research course at Wild Basin. Students enrolled in ENSP 4349 will conduct deer management research projects at the preserve as a part of the course curriculum.

"We know that deer are having an impact on the ecology of Wild Basin, but we don't have the data to verify their impact," Beck said. "This project will provide baseline data on aspects such as impact on native vegetation, disease transmission and even public attitudes that will be necessary for Wild Basin managers to draft a deer management strategy."

To learn more about this deer population in the Wild Basin, read the Hilltop Views article, "White-tailed deer population explodes at Wild Basin," written by Kristina Schenck and released on December 7, 2011.