March 24, 2022
In a recent issue of High Country News, Ph.D. candidates, Anna Ortega and Kristin Barker, discuss the responses of mule deer to naturally occurring wildfire and the importance of sharing migratory journeys with the public through maps and storytelling.
Through the storytelling of Jo, wildlife fanatics and the general public were able to track the long migration of a mule deer from its winter range in the Red Desert to its summer range in the Hoback Basin.
February 28, 2022
Gelzer’s research at the University of Wyoming focused on six populations of mule deer in western Wyoming and southwestern Colorado.
Photo: Benjamin Kraushaar
Emily Gelzer publicly defended her Master’s thesis at the University of Wyoming titled “How site fidelity, habitat variability, and sampling design influence population distribution over time.”
February 8, 2021
OnX Hunt highlighted some of the fieldwork in Ortega’s dissertation. As part of a long-term study, Ortega has conducted five years of fawn recruitment surveys to assess fawn survival. Estimates of fawn survival are important for understanding population growth in big game herds.