Pronhorn Antelope & White Tail Deer Corridor

Pronghorn Antelope & White Tail Deer Corridor

Introduction:

     My goal is to create a wildlife corridor to preserve and expand the range of the Pronghorn Antelope and the White Tail Deer to the Prescott National Forest in my area. This rural area of forest provides a desirable habitat sought by both species while providing peace from the growing Prescott area. Doing this increases the wildlife and beauty of nature for campers, hikers, and some residents in this area.

Procedure:

     As the population continues to grow, the demographic necessities for both human and wildlife continually find confliction with each other. In attempt to find a happy median for human development and wildlife safety, many wildlife corridors have been created. A wildlife corridor is precisely a path, or landscape linkage, from one area of habitat to another. The process of planning, implementing, and successfully completely the relocation or expansion of a particular species can take several years and is why adaptive management is crucial to this process. Teams work together to predict future population growth and spatial needs to carefully plan expansion for human necessities and relocation of wildlife. The expansion of species into other areas may be used through wildlife corridors as well.

     This project is designed to bring Pronghorn Antelope (Antilocapra americana) from the southern area of Prescott National Forest in the Black Mesa area behind Sunset Point up to the Pine Flats Area. I also want to bring more White Tail Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) from the Bradshaw Mountain/Hassayampa Lake area to the Pine Flats Area as well. Both of these areas share common ecotonical features that can be found in the heart of the Pine Flats Area of the Prescott National Forest and along the way to include habitat fragmentation from both of the species homes. The path of the corridor would run along Senator Highway from both directions ranging within 1-2 mile of the roadway to minimize contact of light pollution and noise disruption but allow easy access for monitoring. This process would not extirpate any species from their core habitat, only expand their presence.

   Both of these species are considered to be umbrella species  who’s habitats coincide with many common surrounding species. They both create a temporal atmosphere along with other peaceful species such as rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, many birds, and much more. The diversity of vegetation available in this area accommodates the needs of both species including weeds, shrubs, and grassy areas. The Pine Flats Area is far from abiotic as its topographical features meet the needs of an extremely large range of life. As you drive through the mountains, you may begin in desert scenery and may end in the snow covered pines during the winter years. Allowing for a broad range of hobbies from hiking to gold panning and even gardening brings year round and vacationing residents. This in turn mitigates the environment due to the inability for people to hunt within a quarter mile of any residents without the owner’s permission, or across any roadways. Although there is an area of spread out residents, the majority of the land is owned by the government which makes this process easier as a conserving easement with property owners would not be necessary. I do not foresee any impediments with the operation of this particular corridor at this time either. 

     Another benefit of this corridor is the path taken from both directions allows encounters from both species along the way. If herds find one another than the genetic interchange would lessen the possibilities of inbreeding amongst each other and hopefully increase the birth rates more rapidly. These two species have completely opposite mating seasons which I predict would allow for a less stressful environment between the males trying to protect their offspring. The White Tail Deer only inhabit a four square mile range while the Pronghorn Antelope require a 20-40 square mile range which can easily be met for both species in the Pine Flats Area. 

 Results:   

 

 

 

 

 

Pronghorn Antelope Area

White Tail Deer Area

Entire Area Of Corridor

 

**Pronghorn Antelope & White Tail Deer Corridor**

We need your help to watch!!!

We have recently brought a wildlife corridor to your area & we need your help to protect it! Pronghorn Antelope & White Tail Deer are an exceptional species with a peaceful presence and a beautiful nature & we need your help to preserve that! If you see any disruption to their presence by unnecessary guests please contact us immediately! We need everyone’s cooperation to make this a successful project! Please feel free to contact us for any further information regarding this project.  

 

 

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Conclusion:

     This project was to demonstrate the necessity to make room for each other as humans and animals. We may need to expand for further development due to our growing population, but we also need to respect the ones who were there first and be sure their relocation is of right suit. Relocation of animals to a remote area where they may meet more of their species along the way is ideal for successfully continuing the breeding of the species. I learned that us as humans impose upon the wildlife to build our house or a shopping mall for nothing more than convenience and we don’t consider the wildlife we are affecting. We should build on top of each other or in between where space is available to save for both humans and animals.