White-tailed Deer Monitoring For The Heartland Inventory And Monitoring Network: 2005-2023 - Data Package

This dataset consists of occurrence observations for white-tailed deer in the National Park Service Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network Parks. Because of their impacts on vegetation, disease transmission, visitor health, and vehicle-deer collisions, park managers at Arkansas Post National Memorial, Pea Ridge National Military Park, and Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield identified white-tailed deer as a vital sign for monitoring. Monitoring white-tailed deer populations better positions park management to take action to mitigate concerns involving deer. The overall goals of HTLN white-tailed deer monitoring are to 1) document annual changes in the number of white-tailed deer, as changes could signal presence of illegal deer harvest, disease, or other acute factors of concern for park management; 2) document long-term trends in the number of white-tailed deer to help park management determine if measures need to be taken to maintain herd health, minimize vegetation damage within a park, or alleviate visitor health concerns; and 3) annually map locations of white-tailed deer observed to assist park management in assessing the influences of management actions on deer usage of an area, habitat type, etc.
Organization: Department of the Interior
Last updated: 2025-09-14T18:29:01.026683
Tags: arkansas-post-national-memorial, arpo, deer, heartland-network, htln, long-term-monitoring, mammal, monitoring, national-park-service, nps, odocoileus-virginianus, pea-ridge-national-military-park, peri, white-tailed-deer, wicr, wildlife, wilsons-creek-national-battlefield