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Mule Deer

Sightability Model for Elk and Mule Deer (Excel Spreadsheet)

Sightability Model for Elk and Mule Deer (Excel Spreadsheet File)
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Understanding mule deer behavior and habitat should increase our success mule deer management. Information on mule deer is limited due to difficulties and expense of research. Below is a list of information and publications that are available.

Mule Deer Research from the CRLRC

Guidelines for Management of Habitat for Mule Deer: PiÃ±on-juniper, Chihuahuan desert, arid grasslands, and associated arid habitat types. (NMSU CES Circular 662)

Condition, survival, and productivity of mule deer in semiarid grassland-woodland in east-central New Mexico (Human-Wildlife Interactions (5(2):276â€“286, Fall 2010)

Condition, Survival, and Productivity of Mule Deer in Semiarid Grassland-Woodland in East-Central New Mexico (2011 CRLRC Field Day Proceedings)

Effects of Ecological Site Characteristics, Pinyon-Juniper Management, and Precipitation on Habitat Quality for Mule Deer on the Corona Rnage and Livestock Research Center, New Mexico (2011 CRLRC Field Day Proceedings)

Habitat and Mule Deer: Keys to Management (2011 CRLRC Field Day Poster)

Survival and Production of Mule Deer: Habitat and Precipitation (2011 CRLRC Field Day Poster)

Population Dynamics and Habitat Relationships of Mule Deer and Pronghorn (2008 CRLRC Field Day Proceedings)

Habitat Relationships of Mule Deer; What Drives Deer Distribution? (2008 CRLRC Field Day Poster)

Population Dynamics of Mule Deer; Effects of Timing and Amount of Precipitation (2008 CRLRC Field Day Poster)

Deer population dynamics: CRLRC and New Mexico (2005 CRLRC Feild Day Proceedings)

Population dynamics and nutritional ecology of mule deer and pronghorn on the Corona Range and Livestock Research Center (2005 CRLRC Field Day Proceedings)

Monitoring deer and pronghorn: Age and condition (2005 CRLRC Field Day Proceedings)

General Information from the NMSU Cooperative Extension Service

Burning for Big Game (NMSU Ext Pub CR-657)

Mule Deer in New Mexico (NMSU Ext Pub L-301)

Basics of Trophy Management (NMSU Ext Pub L-111)

Condition, Survival, and Cause-Specific Mortality of Adult Female Mule Deer in North-Central New Mexico (J. Wildlife Mgt. 71:1118)

Survival and Cause-Specific Mortality of Neonatal Mule Deer Fawns, North-Central New Mexico (J. Wildlife Mgt. 71:881)