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Migration Routes of Mule Deer in the Wyoming Range South Population in Wyoming

Mule deer in the southern Wyoming Range population winter north of Evanston in the relatively low mountains between Kemmerer, Wyoming, and Woodruff Narrows Reservoir along the Utah border. Many deer in this population migrate north more than 100 mi (161 km) to summer ranges in the Wyoming Range surrounding Afton, Wyoming. Migrations in this population are not limited to Wyoming, with at least one deer summering in the Caribou Range in Idaho. Challenges for this population include highway and train mortality, especially along U.S. Highway 30. A number of highway underpasses were constructed between 2001 and 2008 along U.S. Highway 30 at Nugget Canyon, which has significantly reduced vehicle-caused mortality. These data provide the location of migration routes for mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in the Wyoming Range South population in Wyoming. They were developed from Brownian bridge movement models using 237 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 63 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 2-8 hours.

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Author(s) Matthew J Kauffman orcid, Holly Copeland, Eric Cole, Matt Cuzzocreo, Sarah Dewey, Julien Fattebert, Jeff Gagnon, Emily Gelzer, Tabitha A Graves orcid, Kent Hersey, Rusty Kaiser, James Meacham, Jerod A. Merkle, Arthur Middleton, Tristan Nunez, Brendan Oates, Daniel Olson, Lucas Olson, Hall Sawyer, Cody Schroeder, Scott Sprague, Alethea Steingisser, Mark Thonhoff
Publication Date 2020-11-09
Beginning Date of Data 2013-01-01
Ending Date of Data 2018-01-01
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P9O2YM6I
Citation Kauffman, M.J., Copeland, H., Cole, E., Cuzzocreo, M., Dewey, S., Fattebert, J., Gagnon, J., Gelzer, E., Graves, T.A., Hersey, K., Kaiser, R., Meacham, J., Merkle, J.A., Middleton, A., Nunez, T., Oates, B., Olson, D., Olson, L., Sawyer, H., Schroeder, C., Sprague, S., Steingisser, A., and Thonhoff, M., 2020, Migration Routes of Mule Deer in the Wyoming Range South Population in Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9O2YM6I.
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