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Paper  Mapping Urban Deer Communities with GPS and GIS
Track: Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries Management
Author(s): Stephen Castlebury Brown, Brandalena Gianette Blake

Urban white-tail deer populations are becoming increasingly more common across the United States. In the community of Hollywood Park, Texas, several factors such as confinement, feeding, and lack of predators, influence a local white-tail deer herd. Using a real-time, differentially corrected GPS receiver connected to a laser range finder, researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio were able to create GIS maps of the white-tail deer community in Hollywood Park. These researchers were then able to document the various factors that influence this white-tail deer herd. Participants in this session will learn how to conduct similar wildlife surveys.

Stephen Castlebury Brown
University of Texas at San Antonio
6900 North Loop 1604 West
San Antonio, TX 78249
USA