World’s Longest Mule Deer Migration: Red Desert to Hoback

“As discussed below, each summer Deer 255 lives in the heart of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. But each winter, she travels far into Wyoming’s sagebrush sea and high desert ecosystem.

She crosses the Pitchstone Plateau, within a few miles of Pitchstone Waters Ranch, which is 5-miles southwest of Yellowstone Park’s southwest corner.

 

Click on the window to see this incredible migration.

 

NOTE: this story map was originally published to USGS.gov

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