Range Expansion of White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginanus) Into Urban and Agricultural Areas of Utah

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Great Basin Naturalist

Volume

57

Issue

32

Publication Date

1997

First Page

278

Last Page

280

Abstract

Numbers of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in the United States have increased to an unprecedented level over the past 50-60 yr (McCabe and McCabe 1984, Curtis and Richmond 1992, Harlow and Guynn 1994). During this time range expansion by white-tailed deer had occured in portions of the western United States, regions dominated historically by mule deer (O. hemionus; Martinka 1968, Baker 1984, Wiggers and Beasom 1986, Mackie 1995). Because white-tailed deer adapt readily to man-altered environments, range expansion has been linked with land-use changes brought about by humans (Baker 1984, Dusek et al. 1989, Wood et al. 1994). Accordingly, range expansion into the West by white-tailed deer has been most conspicuous in agricultural (Kufeld and Bowden 1995) and urban (Vogel 1989) environments, where white-tailed deer may now outnumber mule deer.

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