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Title: 2003 Deer Pellet Group Surveys

Title: Wildlife Division Report No. 3406

Collection Number: RG 2019-30

Scope and Content: The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) collects sample data to estimate population size and other population parameters of a wildlife species, based on statistical principles. These field surveys often draw inferences about a wildlife population based on observations of signs a species leaves. Experienced hunters frequently use pellet group sightings as a measure of the abundance of deer in an area and the pellet group survey is a formal extension of this common technique. It is designed to estimate deer density from the amount of fecal debris (pellet groups) deposited over a known period of time within a fixed area, since wildlife populations can be elusive and difficult to capture or observe.

Division: Wildlife Division

Agency: Michigan Department of Natural Resources

Surveyor: Sarah L. Mayhew

Language: english

Type of Resource: text

Genre: reports

Digital Origin: reformatted digital

Subject: animal populations

Subject: white-tailed deer

Subject: Lower Peninsula

Subject: Upper Peninsula

Subject: wildlife management