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FY24 Deer Response to Summer Range Habitat Treatments the Nine Mile Management Unit
Region: Southeastern
ID: 6761
Project Status: Completed
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2024
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Final Methods
We captured 80 deer in December on the Range Creek Unit to assess condition and monitor overwinter survival. We captured an additional 64 deer in March 2024 to examine overwinter condition decline and check pregnancy. For 60 of the pregnant does, we inserted VITs to aid in neonate capture. In June, we captured 56 deer neonates to monitor survival and cause of death. Data will be analyzed based on use and selection for summer treatment projects to determine potential impacts on mule deer adults and fawns.
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Project Narrative
As we continue to monitor mule deer condition across Utah, the importance of body condition entering winter is becoming more apparent. As such, the importance of summer habitat for mule deer is also becoming clearer. On the Range Creek Unit, much work has been conducted to improve summer habitat for mule deer, which provides an excellent opportunity to assess if and how these treatments may benefit mule deer. The objectives of this project are to evaluate habitat selection and condition of adult female mule deer in relation to summer habitat treatments and then to monitor marked animals to understand how treatments influence selection of parturition sites, weight of neonates, growth rate of neonates to 6-months old, and survival of neonates during the initial months after parturition. The monitoring area lends itself to a control-treatment design where we can monitor the response (adult condition; habitat selection; weight of neonates; survival) of mule deer in treated areas and compare those metrics to mule deer using areas of similar elevation and habitat type that have not yet been treated.
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Future Management
Deer will continue to be monitored with GPS collars. This project will provide a better understanding the impacts of summer habitat treatment use on mule deer condition entering winter.
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Kent Hersey
Submitted Time
08/27/2024 10:34:51
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