Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit: Annual Cooperators Meeting 4/4/2017 - Ungulate Research

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00:00 Introduction by Dr. Kevin Monteith
1:26 Role of harvest, demography, and changing environments on horn size in mountain sheep
(Tayler LaSharr)
8:10 The Wyoming Range Mule Deer Project: Evaluating factors that regulate population
performance of a cherished mule deer herd (Samantha Dwinnell)
16:00 Deer‐Elk Ecology Research Project (Matthew Hayes)
22:06 Nutritional and reproductive ecology of elk in a high‐desert system (Katey Huggler)
28:26 Evaluating green wave surfing in migratory mule deer: Moving from ecology to
management (Ellen Aikens)
34:48 Influence of beetle‐killed forests on elk and hunter resource selection and interactions (Bryan Lamont)
41:21 Nutritional responses of moose to beetle‐killed forests in southeast Wyoming (Alex May)
48:15 The influence of energy and residential development on the ability of mule deer to track
phenology (Teal Wyckoff)
54:30 Understanding maintenance of partial migration: A test of the Fitness‐Balancing Hypothesis with mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in south‐central Wyoming (Anna Ortega)
1:01:55 The role of memory in ungulate migration and its implications for management (Jerod Merkle)
01:09:21 Mule deer migratory behavior: A comparison of the sexes (Patrick Rodgers)
1:16:20 Picture this: Monitoring migratory elk using remote photography (Travis Zaffarano)
1:23:55 New approaches for monitoring big game productivity: Examples from Wyoming moose herds (Brett Jesmer)