Rotary News
Jackie Rosenberger (middle), daughter of Rotarians, John & Paige Rosenberger, was the guest speaker at the Rotary luncheon meeting March 23rd. Jackie is a 2014 Chambersburg PA High School graduate, completed her undergraduate studies at Shippensburg and was awarded her master’s degree in 2020 from the University of Georgia.
The subject of her program was Deer Study in the Chattahoochee National Forest in Northern Georgia. The National Forest covers 3 times the land of Cameron County. The study was conduced due to a recent 64% decline in the deer population. Only buck licenses are issued and zero buck were taken in this national forest in 2020. The study looked at predators, natural selection and competition for food. The known predators are coyote, bear and bobcats with the feral hog population competing for food. The results of this extensive study indicted that the coyote ranks #1 in the killing of the deer, particularly the fawn population. The bear rank #2 and the bobcat had only 1 confirmed fawn kill, ranking #3,. The results are supported by DNA sampling of the saliva of species that was left on collected killed deer carcasses.
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