ORIGINAL: bluebird2
Deer will eat beech and be happy and healthy at over 30 DPSM. The herd is being managed based on the regeneration of commercially vauable timber ,rather than on the carrying capacity of the habitat.
I have personally never seen a deer touch beech, and the benches of the ANF where i hunt are polluted with them. I don't know where you ever came up with that!
Maybe if they're starving they might, I dunno.