Western Upper Peninsula group working to ‘rehab’ deer yards

An important ingredient to the often tenuous existence of the white-tailed deer in the northern part of its range is what is known as a “deer yard,” often a lowland area containing coniferous trees that provide shelter and sometimes food to wintering deer.
Deer in northern Wisconsin and Minnesota, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, may migrate tens of miles from their summer range to such winter cover.
In recent years, deer yards have been decimated in many locations for a number of reasons.