-- The author of Whitetail Winter spent over 30 years studying whitetails on their northern range, that stark vista where deer face their greatest adversary in an annual struggle for survival -- winter. For whitetails, winter is a period of extreme stress caused by a lack of quality food, increased susceptibility to predators, and unrelenting exposure to harsh weather. So it is that winter, and whitetails' adaptations to it, determine which animals live and which will die before the coming spring. This is the dramatic story, accurately told and vividly illustrated, of Whitetail Winter.