Baiting Deer Research Paper

Baiting deer can cause many health problems for the deer to include debilitating diseases that do not normally occur in nature at such a high rate. Larger areas can encourage more hunters to bait deer, making diseases spread more rapidly than naturally. Although it is difficult to attribute the spread of disease to deer density alone, some disease problems occur more commonly in areas of high density such as might occur with baiting (Deer Management). In natural circumstances deer are not always in large groups. Deer tend to be with their small mating group. Intermixing of mating groups is not common in nature. When large amounts of deer feed together it causes diseases to spread easier. Blacklegged tick bites can cause anaplasmosis. Ticks