Mule Deer Conservation

[GoatGuy]

http://muledeerworkinggroup.com/inde...s/Page1525.htm

http://muledeerworkinggroup.com/index_files/Page266.htm

The Mule Deer Working Group has put it 'all together'.

Habitat, conservation, predation, carrying capacity, competition, highways, energy etc.

[coach]

Great stuff.. Thanks for posting this, GG.

[HarryToolips]

Thanks for posting man..

[coach]

Some great reading. This is definitely a thread that needs to live for a while.

[hunter1993ap]

Some great reading. This is definitely a thread that needs to live for a while.

I agree, lots of good info

[adriaticum]

Damn it GoatGuy, I was having a good day.

[HarryToolips]

Quote:
Roads
Harvest of forest products and transport of these
commodities to processing and marketing often require
creation or expansion of forestroad systems. Additional
habitat is impacted by features such as landings,rock pits,
equipment storage areas, and spoil disposal areas.
Impacts ofroads related to disturbance and resulting
distribution of ungulates has been well-documented
(Thomas 1979, Witmer et al. 1985, Stewart et al. 2002,
Powell and Lindzey 2004). These impacts include increased
vulnerability of deerto both legal and illegal harvest,
dispersal of undesirable plants, increased predation,
fragmentation and isolation of habitats, energy loss due
to movement caused by disturbance, avoiding forage
areas due to disturbance, and direct loss of habitat due
to establishment of hardened surfaces (Fig. 13)
Unquote.
-all the more reason we need to push the MOE to push the loggin companies to de-activate roads..and ya of course a couple burns in some winter range wouldn't hurt..