Answer: Deer have been shown to reduce the proportional rate of increase in the height of some woody species . It also has been suggested that deer browsing can significantly reduce the growth rate of herbaceous plants .
Deer existed throughout the wooded river valleys and woodlands of central and southern Minnesota at the time of European settlement. In northern Minnesota, where forest habitat was much different than today, they were absent or rare. Instead, other members of the deer family were dominant – moose in the north, woodland caribou in the northeast, and elk in the prairie and prairie-forest transition zone.
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