Nutritional carrying capacity (deer days/acre, assuming 3 lb/d consumption) of selected white-tailed deer Odocoileus virginianus forages combined to average 12% crude protein after implementation of understory fertilization (fert), prescribed burning (burn), and prescribed burning with understory fertilization (burn/fert) in closed-canopy hardwood stands at Rocky River Hunting Club (RR) in Sequatchie County, Tennessee, and Ames Plantation (AP) in Fayette County, Tennessee, July–August 2005. Interaction between burning and fertilization not significant (P > 0.05) at either site.