Mule deer Essays

  • Mule Deer Case Study

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    elk and mule deer, created the idea of resource partitioning resulting from interspecific competition. Traditionally, resource partitioning was evaluated by species temporal avoidance, spatial separation and dietary differences (Stewart et al. 2010). Six different outputs influence mule deer behavior; density of roads, quality of forage, quantity of forage, quality of cover, quantity of cover and interactions between livestock, elk and mule deer (Edge et al. 1990). Habitat choice by mule deer can be

  • Mule Deer Still Life and Fossil Creek

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    titled “Mule Deer Still Life” by Angela Prond. The artwork is oil on a canvas board. The artwork is a picture of a mule deer skull with its horns still attached. This picture reminds me of hunting, because I do a lot of it and I have shot mule deer before and saved their horns exactly like this picture is. Angela’s title for the artwork makes me believe that she is saying this mule deer still has life and meaning. There is not a lot of background in this artwork, pretty much just the mule deer skull

  • Pheoby In Janie's Best Friend In Eatonville

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    1. Pheoby is Janie’s best friend in Eatonville. Pheoby is the only person who is nice to Janie, and cares about Janie in town after she returns. Janie feels like she can trust Pheoby with her story, and when people ask Pheoby will tell them exactly what Janie told her. She won’t add her own details into the story, and she will not make up lies about what happened while Janie was gone. She will also not start any rumors and she won’t gossip about Janie’s story. Also, Pheoby will not judge Janie for

  • Eyes Were Watching God

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    experiences help a person find themselves. Nanny was determined that Janie would break the cycle of oppression of black women, who were "mules for the world". (Both of Janie's first two husbands owned mules and the way they treated their mules paralleled to the way they treated Janie. Logan Killicks worked his mule demandingly and Joe Starks bought Matt Bonner's mule and put it out to pasture as a status symbol.) After joyfully discovering an archetype for sensuality, love, and marriage under a pear

  • Andrea White: The Tragic End of a Promising Life

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    want her kids accustomed to the big life she received. It all started making sense now. We believe she knew she was struggling with the cartel and wanted out of it. Fast. Some threats we heard when she would need to return money or drugs to the drug mules, were excruciating to hear. Mrs. White says, “I wish i would have known what was going on. I would have gotten her out of this right away. I do not understand how she hid it so well. She was looking as great as always and always had a smile. Long blonde

  • The Road Louise Symbolism

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    Louise’s character while encompassing two major thematic concerns. The imagery begins with a “mule deer” darting its way into a large arena filled with dancers. The description of the deer being a mule makes the animal appear strong because mule deer are often larger in size and more heavily built than other species of deer. There are many instances from the beginning to the end of the novel that involve deer. Their significant involvement in the story, and the fact that Louise is absent from this scene

  • Whitetail Deer

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    The whitetail deer, or scientifically known as Odocoileus virginianus, is one of the most known animals in America. They are found just about everywhere in the United States and can also be found in Canada, Mexico, and Central America. Because they are found all over, deer hunting has become a major sport and in the U.S. People hunt them for food and also for the challenge of getting the "big buck." Whitetails usually grow to three and a half foot tall and weigh 50 to 400 pounds depending on whether

  • Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)

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    spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) of the family Cervidae (Hamir, et.al., 2006). The family Cervidae includes mule deer, Odocolileus hemionus, white-tailed deer, Odocolileus virginianus, Rocky Mountain elk, Cervus elaphus nelsoni, and moose, Alces alces shirasi, among others (Sigurdon & Aguzzi, 2007). CWD is a prion disease, meaning it is a protein caused infection, that occurs naturally in the deer family (Song & Lawson, 2009). This protein is suspected to be an abnormal isoform (PrPSc) of the naturally

  • Dealing with Wildlife Damage to Crops

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    Every year wildlife, including deer, bear, wild boar, beavers and many more, destroy thousands of acres of farmer’s crops. In 2010 it is reported that in North Carolina, wildlife damaged $29.4 million in crops. Wildlife damage hurts farmer’s yields and also hurts the plants health. They affect almost all crops; while mainly affecting corn, soybeans and peanuts, and can cost the farmer hundreds even thousands of dollars in lost yield. Wildlife damage also hurts the crops health. This could lead to

  • For Environmental Balance, Pick up a Rifle by Nickolas Kristof

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    solution to the deer over-population lies in thinning out the herds through hunting. Alternate methods of deer population management do not exist in the suburbs. We certainly do not want to restore the natural predators of deer, because humans would be on these predators’ menu, too. Deer food laced with contraceptives has limited effectiveness because deer migrate regularly over an area of up to 25 square miles. Therefore, the deer who ate the contraceptive might not be the deer who winter over

  • White Tailed Deer Research Paper

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    White-Tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus, is the scientific name of the white-tailed deer ("Species Description: White-tailed Deer"). White-tailed deer are reddish brown in the summer and grayish brown in the winter. They get their name from the white strip of fur they have from the top of their stomachs to the tip of their tails. White-tailed deer can get up to about four to six feet in length. According to Nature Works, "males weigh between 150 and 300 pounds and females weigh between 90 and 200

  • Samuel Slater

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    Description Son of a yeoman farmer, Samuel Slater was born in Belper, Derbyshire, England on June 9, 1768. He become involved in the textile industry at the age of 14 when he was apprenticed to Jedediah Strutt, a partner of Richard Arkwright and the owner of one of the first cotton mills in Belper. Slater worked for Strutt for eight years and rose to become superintendent of Strutt's mill. It was in this capacity that he gained a comprehensive understanding of Arkwright's machines. Believing that

  • Textile Mills: Their Innovation and Impact on Society

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    When our group found out that this year’s History Day topic was “impact and innovation” we had an epiphany to exemplify what impacted people’s lives the most, so we concluded to do our on project on the innovation in the textile industry and impact of the textile mills. The textile mills provided people with a cheap source of cloth that had an impact on every person’s lives during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In order to get our information on the innovation and impact of the textile

  • The Start of America's Industrial Revolution

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    The Industrial Revolution did not start simultaneously around the world, but began in the most highly civilized and educated country in Western Europe – England. An empire like Great Britain was able to prevent the flow of new technology and experienced technicians to its colonies even while new machinery, like the spinning shuttle and the spinning jenny, was being used to develop textile manufacturing at home in England. The British Parliament was able to control its territories through laws and

  • Deer

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    The Deer The deer has been around as long as man can remember. It has always been in North and South America, and not that long ago was brought to Europe. The deer has been hunted for centuries by Stone Age man, American Indians, and now modern day hunters. The weapons used to hunt deer have changed as time goes on. They were hunted with rocks by Stone Age man, with spears and hand crafted bow and arrows by the Indians, with guns and still today the bow and arrow by modern day hunters. The purpose

  • Moral Dilemma

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    buck. I had packed my bag the night before with all the essentials: 2 quartz of water, sausages, snickers bars, extra gloves, extra socks, extra compass, knife, matches and extra bullets. I was excited and yet tired at the same time. The three-week deer season had taken its toll on me and it was the last week so I knew how importan... ... middle of paper ... ...his story, they always make fun of me for not firing. Most of them would have taken the shot, knowing full well that it might be a doe

  • The White Doe by Francesco Petrarch

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    ever heard the word doe used is in the context of a female deer. Perhaps the poem will touch on the innocence of an animal or situation because of the word "white" which symbolizes innocence and cleanliness. Paraphrase- In the poem, "The White Doe," the author is speaking of an encounter with a female deer. The encounter takes place in a glade, which is an opening in the forest. It is a cold morning when the author first spots the deer under the shade of a tree in between two streams. The author

  • Hunting in Morally Acceptable

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    pure, then they are morally right in their option to hunt. Works Cited "Animal Pests." Organic Gardening. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 July 2015. "Definition of Pest." Oxford Dictionaries. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 July 2015. "How Much Meat Will Your Deer Yield?" Butcher & Packer, Sausage Making and Meat Processing Supplies. N.p., 10 July 2005. Web. 31 July 2015. "Hunting." Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 31 July 2015. LaFollette, Hugh, ed. Ethics in Practice: An Anthology. 3rd

  • A Comparison of Poetry on the Subject of Nature

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    brought up in Ireland he is influenced by nature and civil war. Ted Hughes was born in 1930 in West Yorkshire. His early poetry was famous for describing the power and mystery of animals, the beautiful but harsh and deep world of nature. In Roe-deer Hughes encounters the natural world but not a violent poem. The first poem Death of a Naturalist is a very interesting poem, told by Seamus Heaney. This poem is told in first person, he is looking back at his childhood. In contrast with Ted Hughes

  • A Trip to Appalachia Service Project

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    A Trip to Appalachia Service Project It was back in the summer of 2004 when all was calm. The trees filled w/ dry green leaves, the grass barely green as patches of yellowness overcame its dried burned look, dandelions arose in monstrous amounts as the white cotton-like blooms of a dandelion flutter in the midst of an arid breeze, and visions of heat waves could clearly be noticed along a paved street on a clear afternoon. Yep, this truly was mid summer. But I do prefer summer over winter any