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Weather, disease, and bighorn lamb survival during 23 years in Canyonlands National Park

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Charles L Douglas, Weather, disease, and bighorn lamb survival during 23 years in Canyonlands National Park: .

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The Island-ln-The-Sky desert bighorn herd (Ovis canadensis nelsoni), the largest in Canyonlands National Park, Utah, is used extensively by Utah Division of Wildlife Resources to re-establish herds in former habitat throughout the state. This study was undertaken because park managers became concerned about delayed herd recovery following 4 years of transplant removals and suspended trapping operations. This concern led to my study of effects of weather on yearly lamb:ewe ratios for the park's 23-year data- base. I used weather variables regulating the annual growing season, soil-moisture regime, and body condition of ewes to develop multiple-regression models. Regression models, developed from 10 and16 years of data, explained 91% [...]

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