Factors affecting road mortality of whitetailed deer in eastern South Dakota

Authors

Troy W. Grovenburg, South Dakota State University
Jonathan A. Jenks, South Dakota State UniversityFollow
Robert W. Klaver, U.S. Geological Survey
Kevin L. Monteith, South Dakota State University
Dwight H. Galster, South Dakota State University
Ron J. Shauer, South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks
Wilbert W. Morlock, South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks
Joshua A. Delger, South Dakota State University

Date of this Version

2008

Comments

Published in Human-Wildlife Conflicts Volume 2, Number 1, Pages 48–59, Spring 2008. Published and copyright by Jack H. Berryman Institute. http://www.berrymaninstitute.org/journal/index.html

Abstract

White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) mortalities (n = 4,433) caused by collisions with automobiles during 2003 were modeled in 35 counties in eastern South Dakota. Seventeen independent variables and 5 independent variable interactions were evaluated to explain deer mortalities.