“Safari Club International is proud to be a supporter of the Wyoming Migration Initiative. The mule deer is an iconic species of western North America, and observed declines in abundance and harvest in many areas should be a concern for all hunters. This population in Wyoming exhibits a variety of migratory strategies and, as illustrated in …
WORLD RECORD DEER MIGRATION VISUALIZED IN 3D FOR THE FIRST TIME Read More »
By Chris Comer, Ph.D., SCIF Director of Conservation Deer and elk hunters in North America have been bombarded recently with more news items about a topic they would probably just as soon forget: chronic wasting disease (CWD). It started in the fall and winter with announcements that this potentially devastating disease had been detected in Quebec …
SCI Foundation is proud to be a part of this multi-year study by lending support to the Wyoming Migration Initiative (WMI). This project began in 2011 and was intended to examine movements and habitat use in a non-migratory population of mule deer in western Wyoming. What was discovered shocked researchers, as the collared deer were tracked …
Wyoming Mule Deer Migration Study to Help Inform Hunting Strategy Read More »
SCI Foundation is proud to team up with the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Department to uncover previously unknown information about elk habitat usage and movement patterns – information that is starting to help guide elk management decisions for the state wildlife agency. GPS collar data will be turned into ‘Heat …
Rocky Mountain Elk Movement Patterns Offer Suprises Read More »
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