Wildlife Photos

Wildlife Camera Photos from the Harvard Forest Moose & Deer Browsing Experiment

Remote cameras mounted on deer and moose exclosures in mixed hardwood-white pine and hemlock stands in central Massachusetts have documented patterns of habitat use by the two ungulate species, as well as a range of other wildlife species. 

Some observations are:

  • Moose used disturbed (especially logged) hemlock stands more frequently than intact hemlock stands, whereas deer used disturbed and intact hemlock stands more evenly.  Learn More.
  • Moose and deer used regenerated hardwood-pine stands at roughly the same frequency, despite ambient densities of deer, at a landscape scale, being much higher than moose. Learn More.

Photographs from 2016-2017

Moose foraging on hemlock sapling in disturbed hemlock stand, Harvard Forest
Young Moose foraging in hardwood sapling in mature oak-pine stand
Black bear cub in mature hemlock stand, Harvard Forest
Red fox in young hardwood stand, Harvard Forest
Fisher in mature hemlock stand, Harvard Forest
Black bear inside semi-permeable ungulate exclosure, Harvard Forest
Bobcat in young, regenerating hardwood stand, Harvard Forest
White-tailed doe and fawn in mature hemlock stand, Harvard Forest
Wild turkey inside semi-permeable ungulate exclosure, Harvard Forest