1. This document is WEC-133, one of a series of the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Published: June, 1997 as SS-WEC-11 "Florida's White-Tailed Deer". Reviewed and Renumbered: April, 1999. Minor Revision: August, 2001. Please visit the EDIS Web site at http://edis.ifas.ufl....

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