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Abstract: The goal of the research was to establish the amplitude of the deer damage corresponding to the Norway spruce forest from the Eastern Carpathian Mountains. A database was created, containing all Norway spruce stands damage by deer, differentiated by working sections, forest districts and forest department. Then, assisted by a computer program it was possible to calculate the area affected by deer, by age class. Afterwards, it was possible to determine the distribution of stand area affected by deer, by damage categories, in relation with stand age, site type, forest type, land slope, stand exposure, land altitude and site class for each working section and forest district as well as for the entire Suceava Forest Department, the most affected region from the study area. A first conclusion relating to the amplitude of the damage produced by deer is the fact that significant damage from point of view of area affected by deer is recorded in forest district located in the Northern Carpathians. In Suceava Forest Department stands affected area is about 84266.2 ha (21.3% from forest area). The data analyzed indicates that the most significantly are affected the Norway spruce stands about 21 and 80 years old, integrated in the „Mountain mix Ps, brown high edaphic, with Asperula-Dentaria” site type and in the „Norway spruce - European beech mixed stand” forest type, which grow on lands having a slope between 11^o and 30^o, at altitudes between 600 m and 1200 m, in superior site class (site class 1 and 2).

Keyword: Norway spruce, deer damage, Eastern Carpathian, cervid, bark stripping