Condition, Survival, and Cause-Specific Mortality of Adult Female Mule Deer in North-Central New Mexico

2007 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 1118-1124 ◽  
Author(s):  
LOUIS C. BENDER ◽  
LAURIE A. LOMAS ◽  
JASON BROWNING
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Adult Female ◽  
Mule Deer ◽  
North Central ◽  
Specific Mortality

Survival and cause-specific mortality of translocated female mule deer in southern New Mexico, USA

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 325 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Cain III ◽  
Jana B. Ashling ◽  
Stewart G. Liley
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Mule Deer ◽  
Survival Rates ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Population Declines ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Specific Mortality ◽  
Declining Populations

Context Many mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) populations in New Mexico have failed to recover from previous population declines, while some populations near urban areas have increased, resulting in more frequent human–wildlife conflicts. Translocations were used in an effort to simultaneously reduce an urban mule deer population and augment two low-density populations in south-western New Mexico, USA. Aims Because of insufficient monitoring, the efficacy of many ungulate translocations is unknown. Our goal was to monitor cause-specific mortality and 1 year post-release survival of mule deer translocated during 2013 and 2014. We compared survival rates of mule deer released with a hard- versus soft-release during the 2014 translocation. Methods . We translocated 218 mule deer in 2013 and 2014 into the Peloncillo Mountains (PM) and San Francisco River Valley (SFRV); 106 adult female mule deer were fitted with telemetry collars to determine cause-specific mortality and estimate survival 1 year post-release. All deer were hard-released in 2013. In 2014, translocated mule deer were either held in a soft-release pen (0.81 ha) for approximately 3 weeks or hard-released into their new environment. We used a Kaplan–Meier approach to estimate survival of translocated mule deer at each release area and to compare survival of mule deer translocated using each release method (i.e. hard- versus soft-release). Key results In 2013–14, survival of hard-released deer in the PM was 0.627 (s.e. = 0.09), compared with 0.327 (s.e. = 0.10) in the SFRV. In 2014–15, survival of hard–released deer in the PM was 0.727 (s.e. = 0.13) and survival of soft-released deer was 0.786 (s.e. = 0.11). In the SFRV, survival of hard- and soft-released deer was 0.656 (s.e. = 0.14) and 0.50 (s.e. = 0.16), respectively. Causes of mortality were predation (51%), potential disease (9%; blue tongue or epizootic haemorrhagic disease), accident (5%), poaching (5%) and unknown (20%). Conclusions Translocations can be an effective management tool to augment populations of mule deer while reducing overabundant urban populations. Soft-released mule deer did not have higher survival than hard-released mule deer, although the length and conditions of the acclimation period were limited in our study. Implications Overabundant mule deer populations in urban areas may serve as sources of animals to bolster declining populations. Soft-release pens of smaller size and short period of acclimation did not influence survival.

scholarly journals Elk and Mule Deer Diets in North-Central New Mexico

2005 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 366-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Sandoval ◽  
Jerry Holechek ◽  
James Biggs ◽  
Raul Valdez ◽  
Dawn VanLeeuwen
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Mule Deer ◽  
North Central

scholarly journals Compensatory puma predation on adult female mule deer in New Mexico

2016 ◽  
Vol 97 (5) ◽  
pp. 1399-1405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis C. Bender ◽  
Octavio C. Rosas-Rosas
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Adult Female ◽  
Mule Deer

Subsurface stratigraphy and basin-fill architecture of the late Paleozoic eastern Taos trough, northern New Mexico, U.S.A.

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 149-176
Author(s):  
Nur Uddin Md Khaled Chowdhury ◽  
Dustin E. Sweet
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Sediment Accumulation ◽  
Late Paleozoic ◽  
North Central ◽  
The North ◽  
Basement Rocks ◽  
Basin Geometry ◽  
Deformation Event ◽  
Thrust System ◽  
Basin Fill

The greater Taos trough located in north-central New Mexico represents one of numerous late Paleozoic basins that formed during the Ancestral Rocky Mountains deformation event. The late Paleozoic stratigraphy and basin geometry of the eastern portion of the greater Taos trough, also called the Rainsville trough, is little known because the strata are all in the subsurface. Numerous wells drilled through the late Paleozoic strata provide a scope for investigating subsurface stratigraphy and basin-fill architecture of the Rainsville trough. Lithologic data obtained predominantly from petrophysical well logs combined with available biostratigraphic data from the greater Taos trough allows construction of a chronostratigraphic framework of the basin fill. Isopach- and structure-maps indicate that the sediment depocenter was just east of the El Oro-Rincon uplift and a westerly thickening wedge-shaped basin-fill geometry existed during the Pennsylvanian. These relationships imply that the thrust system on the east side of the Precambrian-cored El Oro-Rincon uplift was active during the Pennsylvanian and segmented the greater Taos trough into the eastern Rainsville trough and the western Taos trough. During the Permian, sediment depocenter(s) shifted more southerly and easterly and strata onlap Precambrian basement rocks of the Sierra Grande uplift to the east and Cimarron arch to the north of the Rainsville trough. Permian strata appear to demonstrate minimal influence by faults that were active during the Pennsylvanian and sediment accumulation occurred both in the basinal area as well as on previous positive-relief highlands. A general Permian decrease in eustatic sea level and cessation of local-fault-controlled subsidence indicates that regional subsidence must have affected the region in the early Permian.

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