Assessing impacts of oil-shale development on the Piceance Basin mule deer herd
Development of energy resources on big game ranges generally negatively impacts these important wildlife resources. Although habitat disturbance is generally important, this impact is overshadowed by the negative impacts due to an increasing human population in the area. Increased human activities particularly stress animals during winter periods when inadequate nutrition levels may have already severely impacted the population. Increased road traffic and poaching causes additional deaths, which a decline in survival rates expected, or at least changes in the cause of mortality. This paper describes the experimental design to monitor and mitigate the impact of oil shale development in northwestern Colorado on the Piceance Basin mule deer herd. Biotelemetry techniques are used to measure changes through time in movements, habitat utilization, and survival rates between control and treatment areas. 2 figures.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 5943223
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-83-1475; CONF-830872-1; ON: DE83012780
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Renewable resources inventory for monitoring changes and trends meeting, Corvallis, OR, USA, 15 Aug 1983
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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