Twenty-year Home-range Dynamics
of a White-tailed Deer Matriline
Acknowledgments
This research was supported by the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture North Central Forest Experiment
Station, Mardag Foundation, and Special Projects Foundation of the Big Game
Club. Reviews by Dr. Nancy Mathews and an anonymous reviewer improved the manuscript.
We thank John Terwilliger for discovering and reporting the death of G6996.
We further thank 60 individuals who assisted in capturing deer and extend our
gratitude to the several pilots who skillfully flew the research aircraft, including
current pilots Wayne Erickson and Dean Lee of the U.S. Forest Service.
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