Skip to Main Content
U.S. Forest Service
Caring for the land and serving people
Caring for the land and serving people
United States Department of Agriculture
-
Landscape simulation of foraging by elk, mule deer, and cattle on summer range.
Author(s): Alan A. Ager; Bruce K. Johnson; Priscilla K. Coe; Michael J. Wisdom
Date: 2004
Source: In: Transactions of the 69th North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference: 687-707
Publication Series: Scientific Journal (JRNL)
PDF: Download Publication (2.6 MB)Description
Cattle, mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) and elk (Cervus elaphus) share more area of spring, summer and fall range than any other combination of wild and domestic ungulates in western North America (Wisdom and Thomas 1996). Not surprisingly, conflicts over perceived competition for forage have a long history, yet knowledge about actual competition is limited (Van Dyne et al. 1984b, Hobbs et al. 1996, Johnson et al. 1996). One of the first studies of the Starkey Project was designed to address the issue of whether mule deer and elk compete with cattle for available forage on summer range. A component of this study was to build a forage allocation model that could be used to analyze forage allocation problems on summer range in the Blue Mountains. This model would use data on animal spatial distributions, resource selection patterns, behavioral interactions and diet selection of cattle, elk and mule deer that was collected as part of the Starkey Project at the Starkey Experimental Forest and Range (Starkey) (Johnson et al. 2000; Coe et al. 2001,2004; Findholt et al. 2004).Publication Notes
- Visit PNW's Publication Request Page to request a hard copy of this publication.
- We recommend that you also print this page and attach it to the printout of the article, to retain the full citation information.
- This article was written and prepared by U.S. Government employees on official time, and is therefore in the public domain.
Citation
Ager, Alan A.; Johnson, Bruce K.; Coe, Priscilla K.; Wisdom, Michael J. 2004. Landscape simulation of foraging by elk, mule deer, and cattle on summer range. In: Transactions of the 69th North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference: 687-707Related Search
- Elk, deer, and cattle: the Starkey Project.
- Diet composition, dry matter intake and diet overlap of mule deer, elk and cattle.
- The Starkey databases: spatial-environmental relations of North American elk, mule deer, and cattle at the Starkey Experimental Forest and Range in northeastern Oregon.
XML: View XML
Show More
Show Fewer
https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/24655