Draft Report - Usfws National Conservation Training Center

In Montana, wolves selected deer 1.3x as often as elk, relative to abundance (Kunkel 1997:194). Huggard (1993:135a) reported that elk and deer were selected equally on a per-individual basis. Cowan (1947:164) reported elk were 1.1x more prevalent in wolf scat than predicted from numbers of each species observed in Rocky Mountain parks of Canada. Carbyn (1975:165) reported mule deer more common ... ................
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