Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program: Colorado
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) initiated a research project in 2017 to examine predator-prey dynamics between cougars and mule deer in the Upper Arkansas drainage within the South East region of Colorado. These data include GPS location data for deer (does and fawns) across all years of the study. Although a thorough examination of habitat use and movement patterns of mule deer has been conducted on migratory deer populations the western slope of Colorado, a similar evaluation of the mostly non-migratory population on the eastern slope is needed. The project is a collaboration with researchers and managers of CPW. Results will be used to inform population and habitat management of mule deer in Colorado.