Seasonal Habitat Use by Sitka Black-Tailed Deer on Admiralty Island, Alaska

1 July 1990

journal article
research article
Published by JSTOR in The Journal of Wildlife Management

Vol. 54 (3) , 371-378
https://doi.org/10.2307/3809641

Abstract

We measured seasonal habitat use by 30 radio-collared Sitka black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus stikensis) on northern Admiralty Island in southeastern Alaska from Febuary 1979 to July 1982. Habitat use varied seasonally as deer moved from low-elevation (<300 m), heavily forested winter ranges to higher elevation ( 74 mbf/ha) was used in much greater proportion than its abundance. To minimize the impacts of timber harvesting on deer populations, emphasis should be placed on maintaining stands of high-volume old growth on low-elevation deer winter ranges.

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