Classroom Earth Success Stories

Andy Milbauer and his Environmental Science students have set up a deer exclusion project to gain a better understanding of the impact of deer on the health of the Conserve School campus forest.

The deer exclusion project is based on a design from the Smithsonian Institute. In the Smithsonian project they constructed a multi-variable study to explore the effects of invasive species and deer browsing on forest regeneration out east. At Conserve School, in northern Wisconsin, they replicated the study with a slight modification to explore the effects of deer browsing and thinning of pioneer tree species to explore forest regeneration.