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

Document Type

Article

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.