Tracking Elk Hunters with the Global Positioning System

Tracking Elk Hunters with the Global Positioning System
Author: L. Jack Lyon
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Total Pages: 8
Release: 1998
Genre: Big game hunting
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Global Positioning System (GPS) units were used to record hunter locations at 15 second intervals during elk hunting expeditions. This information allowed us to examine the influence of roads on hunter behavior, and along with associated time and distance data, provide a solid foundation on which a hunter density and elk vulnerability model can be developed.

Vegetation of the Glacier Lakes Ecosystem Experiments Site

Vegetation of the Glacier Lakes Ecosystem Experiments Site
Author: Claudia M. Regan
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Total Pages: 546
Release: 1998
Genre: Biotic communities
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Vegetation at the Glacier Lakes Ecosystem Experiment Site, a 600 ha research site at 3200 to 3500 m elevation in the Snowy Range of southeastern Wyoming, was categorized and described from an intensive sampling of species abundances. A total of 304 vascular plant taxa were identified through collection and herbarium documentation. Plots with tree species were separated from those without tree species for ordination and classification analyses. Detrended correspondence analysis was used to order plots along major axes of composition variation, which are inferred moisture and topographic gradients. Cluster analysis was used to categorize plots based on composition similarity. The resulting groups were named according to species dominants. We identified and described in detail 4 meadow, 4 thicket or scrub, 3 krummholz, and 2 forest plant associations.