The USGS, along with many tribes and state agencies, has developed new maps of wildlife migration trails. Individual animals were tracked with collars – their trails look like spaghetti.

The collaborative project began in 2018 in response to Secretarial Order 3362 issued by then-Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. The directive called on USGS to work with Western states ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation allocated $250,000 toward mapping western migration routes for wildlife. The mapping will track migration in elk, mule deer, moose, pronghorn ...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in partnership with the University of Wyoming and many other collaborators, has published the third volume in a series of new maps of big-game migration corridors.

The resulting atlas of migration corridors in Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming published by the U.S. Geological Survey can help elk, mule deer, antelope and other animals by ...

Each spring and fall – many deer, elk and pronghorn migrate throughout the west to escape deep snow and find forage. But an increasingly developing West continues to encroach on their turf. Now ...