White-tailed Deer Monitoring for the Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network: 2005-2023 - Data Package
Description
This dataset consists of occurrence observations for white-tailed deer in the National Park Service Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network Parks. Because of their impacts on vegetation, disease transmission, visitor health, and vehicle-deer collisions, park managers at Arkansas Post National Memorial, Pea Ridge National Military Park, and Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield identified white-tailed deer as a vital sign for monitoring. Monitoring white-tailed deer populations better positions park management to take action to mitigate concerns involving deer. The overall goals of HTLN white-tailed deer monitoring are to 1) document annual changes in the number of white-tailed deer, as changes could signal presence of illegal deer harvest, disease, or other acute factors of concern for park management; 2) document long-term trends in the number of white-tailed deer to help park management determine if measures need to be taken to maintain herd health, minimize vegetation damage within a park, or alleviate visitor health concerns; and 3) annually map locations of white-tailed deer observed to assist park management in assessing the influences of management actions on deer usage of an area, habitat type, etc.
Resources
| Name |
Format |
Description |
Link |
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8 |
HTLN White-tailed Deer Monitoring data |
https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/708291?Reference=2303081 |
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8 |
HTLN White-tailed Deer Sampling Events data |
https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/708292?Reference=2303081 |
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55 |
EML Metadata |
https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/708293?Reference=2303081 |
Tags
- deer
- wildlife
- wilsons-creek-national-battlefield
- arpo
- national-park-service
- white-tailed-deer
- peri
- odocoileus-virginianus
- long-term-monitoring
- monitoring
- htln
- arkansas-post-national-memorial
- wicr
- pea-ridge-national-military-park
- heartland-network
- mammal
- nps