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

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)