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New Mexico Mule Deer Crow Mesa/2C Winter Range

The Crow Mesa Mule Deer Study was initiated in 2019 to identify the seasonal movement and distribution patterns of mule deer in the eastern half of Game Management Unit (GMU) 2C. This GPS study builds on nearby studies of mule deer and elk conducted by the Bureau of Land Management, the Southern Ute Tribe, the Jicarilla Apache Nation, and the New Mexico Department of Fish and Game. Migration corridors extended 20 to 75 miles from the winter ranges in GMU 2C to various summer ranges northeast to the Carson National Forest near Chama, and southeast to the San Pedro Parks Wilderness in the Santa Fe National Forest. The Crow Mesa herd relies largely on winter ranges administered by the Bureau of Land Management, where approximately 70% of the population remains year-round (Sawyer 2021). The other 30% migrate through, and summer on an assortment of private, tribal, and U.S. Forest Service lands. Notably, all mule deer migration corridors crossed Jicarilla Apache Nation immediately east of this herd’s winter range. Key management challenges with this deer herd include fence barriers, highway crossings, and habitat loss and human disturbance associated with energy development. These mapping layers show the location of the winter ranges for mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in the Crow Mesa/2C population in New Mexico. They were developed from 40 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 12 animals comprising GPS locations collected every 2-8 hours.

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Author(s) Matthew J Kauffman orcid, Blake H Lowrey orcid, Jodi Berg, Scott Bergen, Doug Brimeyer, Patrick Burke, Teal Cufaude, James W Cain orcid, Jeffrey C Cole orcid, Alyson B. Courtemanch orcid, Michelle Cowardin, Julie Cunningham, Melia DeVivo, Jennifer Diamond, Orrin Duvuvuei, Julien Fattebert, Joanna Ennis, Darby Finley, Jessica Fort, Gary Fralick, Eric Freeman, Jeff Gagnon, Julie Garcia, Emily Gelzer, Morgan Graham, Jacob T Gray, Evan Greenspan, L. Embere Hall, Curtis Hendricks, Andy Holland, Brian Holmes, Katey Huggler, Mark Hurley, Emily Jeffreys, Aran Johnson, Lee Knox, Kevin Krasnow, Zack Lockyer, Hannah Manninen, Mike McDonald, Jennifer A McKee, James Meacham, Jerod A. Merkle, Barb Moore, Tony W. Mong, Clayton Nielsen, Brendan Oates, Kim Olsen, Daniel Olson, Lucas Olson, Matt Pieron, Jake Powell, Annemarie Prince, Kelly M. Proffitt, Craig Reddell, Corrina Riginos, Robert Ritson, Sierra Robatcek, Shane Roberts, Hall Sawyer, Cody Schroeder, Jessie Shapiro, Nova Simpson, Scott Sprague, Alethea Steingisser, Nicole Tatman, Benjamin Turnock, Cody Wallace, Laura Aldrich-Wolfe
Publication Date 2022-12-15
Beginning Date of Data 2019-01-01
Ending Date of Data 2021-04-30
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P9LSKEZQ
Citation Kauffman, M.J., Lowrey, B.H., Berg, J., Bergen, S., Brimeyer, D., Burke, P., Cufaude, T., Cain, J.W., Cole, J.C., Courtemanch, A.B., Cowardin, M., Cunningham, J., DeVivo, M., Diamond, J., Duvuvuei, O., Fattebert, J., Ennis, J., Finley, D., Fort, J., Fralick, G., Freeman, E., Gagnon, J., Garcia, J., Gelzer, E., Graham, M., Gray, J.T., Greenspan, E., Hall, L.E., Hendricks, C., Holland, A., Holmes, B., Huggler, K., Hurley, M., Jeffreys, E., Johnson, A., Knox, L., Krasnow, K., Lockyer, Z., Manninen, H., McDonald, M., McKee, J.A., Meacham, J., Merkle, J.A., Moore, B., Mong, T.W., Nielsen, C., Oates, B., Olsen, K., Olson, D., Olson, L., Pieron, M., Powell, J., Prince, A., Proffitt, K.M., Reddell, C., Riginos, C., Ritson, R., Robatcek, S., Roberts, S., Sawyer, H., Schroeder, C., Shapiro, J., Simpson, N., Sprague, S., Steingisser, A., Tatman, N., Turnock, B., Wallace, C., and Aldrich-Wolfe, L., 2022, New Mexico Mule Deer Crow Mesa/2C Winter Range: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9LSKEZQ.
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Metadata Date 2023-10-04
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