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120 Northern Yellowstone winter range Year Parkwide Count Estimate Date of count 1953 Common 1955 Common 1956 Mar. 20- 192 c 22 1957 Common 1961 1962 Common 1963 Common 1964 Common 1965 Common 1966 Common 1967 Common Mar. 5 1968 500" Mar. 5 1969 500" Mar. 20~21 1970 Count Data Inside park Outside park Total Estimate Comments from sources source g Appear to be increasing possibly due to 8 relatively mild winters. Losses rather high in early 1952. Status unchanged even though hunting has 8 been liberalized. Helicopter count incidental to counting 20 elk. Insufficient time to count deer as accurately as elk. Population appears static even though 21 hunter bag north of the park is 2 deer. 161 c Helicopter count incidental to the elk 32 census. 265 c Helicopter census of pronghorn winter 28 range only. Less effort made to count deer. Deer hard to see on bare slopes or in sagebrush. Many probably were missed in forested areas. 252" 27 279 Same comments as above except an effort 29 was made to count all deer. 172f Fixed~wing check of elk distribution and 30 intensive pronghorn census. Special effort was made to count deer on pronghorn winter range. Deer were hard to see. 23 24 25 26 27 31 a Ground count unless otherwise noted. b Probably for summer. C Helicopter count. 1.1 Winter. e Fall. f Piper Supercub. Il DATA SOURCES: (1) Superintendent's Annual Reports for respective years; (2) Acting Superintendent, 1912a; (3) Acting Superintendent, 1914; (4) Bailey, 1930; (5) Baggley, n.d.; (6) Baggley, 1931; (7) Anonymous, 1932; Acting Superintendent. 1932; (8) Anonymous for the respective years; (9) Barrows, 1936; Skinner. 1936b; (10) Barrows, 1937b; (11) Barrows, 1938a,b; (12) Barrows, 1939a,b; (13) Barrows, 1940; Skinner, 1940; (14) Skinner, 1914b; (15) Anonymous, 1945a; (16) Rogers, 1947; Kittams, 1947; (17) Rogers, 1948; (18) Anonymous. 1949a; (19) Evans. 1951; (20) Kittams, 1956; (21) Kittams, 1958a; (22) Howe, 1961a; (23) Howe, 1962a; (24) Howe, 1963b; (2~) Howe, 1964; (26) Howe, 1965c; (27) Barmore, 1966; (28) Bannore, 1967b,c; (29) Bannore, 1968a,b; (30) This study; Bucknall. 1969; (31) Bucknall, 1970.
121 Counts of mule deer on Yellowstone's northern range, 1971-1996. Year Date Deer Counted Comments 1971·78 No counts 1978·79 Apri13 1,108 Helicopter classification count. Observer: G. Erickson. 1986 March 14-15 1,863 Helicopter survey. Observer: P.I. Singer. 2 1987 March 31- 2,134 Helicopter survey. Observers: K. Alt, F.I. Singer. 2,3 April 1 1988 April 11-12 2,217 Helicopter survey. Observers: F.J. Singer, C. McClure. 2,3 Source 2 shows a count total of 2,274. 1989 April 30- 1,796 Helicopter survey. Observers: T. Lemke, F.I. Singer. 3 May 2 1990 Apri118-20 1,616 Helicopter survey_ Observers: T. Lemke, P.I. Singer. 3 1991 May 16-17 2,082 Helicopter survey. Observer: T. Lemke. 3 1992 April 20 2,544 Helicopter survey. Observer: T. Lemke. 3 1993 No count 1994 May 3-4 1,985 Helicopter survey_ Observer: T. Lemke. 3 1995 May 2-4 2,411 Helicopter survey. Observer: T. Lemke. 3 1996 1,620 Helicopter survey. Observer: T. Lemke. 3 a DATA SOURCES: (1) Foss and Taylor 1980 in Wolves for Yellowstone? Vol. IV; (2) Singer 1986~88, unpubl. repts. in YNP files; (3) Lemke 1989~96, unpubl. repts in YNP files.
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