This guide synthesizes a growing body of research and field experience to describe specific key dimensions to consider when engaging in community-based deer management. Managing suburban deer as a valuable resource, rather than a pest, frequently leads deer managers and communities to collaborate in decision making and management implementation. The texts begins with a discussion of public-0issue evolution, presenting a model with utility for community-based deer management. Ten key dimensions of community-based suburban deer management are then described. Next, the authors describe six approaches, or models that managers in the Northeast are using to conduct community-based deer management. In the final section, the authors describe a set of 10 deer management cases, highlighting how key dimensions of community-based deer management were expressed in each case. 21 photographs, 8 tables, 4 figures and maps, and a glossary of terms and acronyms round-out this informative text.

Decker. (2004) 52 pages. Paperback. Item code: 147CBDM.