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MULE DEER MIGRATIONS

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CONSERVING BIODIVERSITY:

Protection of Critical Wildlife Migration Corridors

GTNP biologists established a wildlife migration initiative in the early 1990s, focused on identifying migratory corridors and threats to park wildlife along movement routes and on distant seasonal ranges. One of the initiative’s early projects concentrated on pronghorn migration and was pivotal in defining and protecting the now well-known Path of the Pronghorn. Since 2013, with GTNPF support, the program has discovered eight previously unknown, long-distance migrations of mule deer that summer in the park.

RESEARCH AND PRESERVATION

These migration paths, important stopover sites, and associated winter ranges west, east, and south of the park have been delineated through intensive field research, and the program’s emphasis has now shifted to the critical phase of identifying and protecting areas with the most pressing conservation need. Park biologists have developed partnerships with other federal and state agencies as well as private conservation organizations to actively facilitate large-scale habitat conservation where potential migration barriers and threats on seasonal ranges may exist.

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ANIMAL TRAILS: REDISCOVERING GRAND TETON MIGRATIONS

We are excited to share Wyoming Migration Initiative's film, Animal Trails: Rediscovering Grand Teton Migrations. This film emphasizes what we have learned about ungulate migration within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and how we can work together to protect these incredible migrations.

MIGRATION MAP

Animal migration: a long-term initiative to identify important corridors that connect park seasonal ranges with those outside the park, focused on protecting migratory pathways and preserving the park’s remarkable biodiversity. The map above depicts mule deer migration routes that the park discovered through Foundation-funded research.
Animal migration: a long-term initiative to identify important corridors that connect park seasonal ranges with those outside the park, focused on protecting migratory pathways and preserving the park’s remarkable biodiversity. The map above depicts mule deer migration routes that the park discovered through Foundation-funded research.

Posts From This Initiative

New Mule Deer Migration Route over Teton Range

Grand Teton National Park biologists have detailed a new long-distance mule deer migration route that spans two states and traverses the Teton Range. The route was the latest of four long-distance migrations that park biologists have documented since 2013 in ...
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