Conservation Framing
Each double mat may vary from print to
print according to which frame you choose. If you would like to
have a particular color of mat just call 1-302-875-2258 to place your order. The
best matching color is used for
each individual print and is not always the color shown here.
Each print is framed
using Conservation Acid Free & Lignin Free, Alkaline pH buffered mat board &
backing.
We use non glare glass, You may call us to request regular glass if you like, Other styles of glass are available. In conservation framing, We use only
Museum Quality materials and procedures that will have no adverse
effects on a piece of artwork and will protect the artwork from external damage.
Description
"White-tailed Deer" refers to the white underside of
the tail, which is held conspicuously erect like a flag when the
animal is alarmed or running. The adult White-tailed Deer has a
bright, reddish brown summer coat and a duller grayish brown
winter coat. White fur is located in a band behind the nose, in
circles around the eyes, inside the ears, over the chin and
throat, on the upper insides of the legs and beneath the tail.
The young, called fawns, have reddish coats with white spots.
Adult males, called bucks, inhabiting the deserts tend to be
smaller than their eastern relatives, which can weigh 400 pounds.
Desert White-tailed bucks average about 200 pounds and stand
about 3 1/2 feet high at the shoulders. As in most deer species,
the females (does) are smaller, with an average weight of about
125 pounds.
Habitat
Deer generally prefer open woodland, but are often found on the
fringes of urban areas and in farming country, but desert species
can occur in most habitats within 10 miles of a water source.
They often enter human inhabited areas and feast on flowers and
grass as well as regularly getting a drink from man's abundant
water supplies. Some deer have also taken to eating garbage and
plastic which is not at all good for them. Recently. A number of
deer had to be sacrificed at the Grand Canyon after having eaten
human trash which stopped up their systems and caused them not to
be able to process food.
Food & Hunting
White-tail deer feed on a variety of vegetation, depending on
what is available in their habitat. They are browsers feeding on
twigs, leaves, bark, shrubs, the fruits and nuts of most
vegetation, as well as lichens and other fungi. In desert areas,
plants such as huajillo brush, yucca, prickly pear cactus, comal,
ratama and various tough shrubs may be the main components of a
White-tail's diet.
Conifers are often utilized in winter when other foods are
scarce. White-tail deer feed mainly from before dawn until
several hours after, and again from late afternoon until dusk.
Conservation
Life span in the wild is 10 years, but White-tail deer have lived
up to 20 years in captivity .
Adult deer have few predators except for humans, Mountain Lions
and wolves, where they still exist. Coyote predation on fawns can
be considerable, accounting for as much as 40% of fawn mortality
in some areas.
State fish and game agencies regard deer as a renewable,
harvestable resource for viewing and hunting. Sport hunters bag
about 1 million Mule Deer and 2 million White-tailed Deer
annually.
The National Park Service estimates that between 23 and 40
million White-tailed Deer inhabited North America before the
arrival of Europeans. For a number of years the population was
greatly reduced in the U.S., due to habitat loss and unrestricted
hunting.
But by the mid-20th century, the population has been restored
throughout North America. Today, an estimated 14 to 20 million
are believed to inhabit the United States alone, and in many
areas of the eastern U.S. populations have soared to previously
unattained levels.
Experts cite various reasons for this reversal, in addition to
the behavioral flexibility of deer. An increase in food supplies
has been accompanied by a decrease in the natural predator
populations of Wolves, Coyotes, Mountain Lions and Bobcats, which
have not survived urbanization. Game management measures have
placed restrictions on hunting seasons, bag limits and available
lands for public hunting, while establishing artificially
protected habitats in state and national parks.
Recently, the National Park Service, noted that it may need to
begin "managing" the deer population in about 50
eastern parks because deer over-browsing is causing the
destabilization of park ecosystems. Injuries to park visitors
from contact with deer that are perceived as tame, collisions of
motor vehicles with deer, and damage to crops, ornamental shrubs
and flowers in historical parks were also cited as increasing
problems by the NPS.
