it’s 2013 and for large mammals around
North America especially the lower 48 we
typically think we kind of know what’s
going on and here we have hundreds of
animals migrating 150 miles across
public and private lands right
underneath our noses but we didn’t even
know about it
my name’s house lawyer and research
biologist that study in mule deer in
western Wyoming now 415 years we
recently started the Neil deer study in
the red desert of Wyoming and the study
was intended to just document the
movement and distribution patterns of
what we thought was a non-migratory a
reson occurred in the desert but to my
surprise and everybody else’s it turns
out that most of these deer migrate some
150 miles north to the mountain ranges
of Northwest one hour this new GPS
technology provides us a window into
this sort of mysterious process of
migration that we’ve never had before
when you look at this migration on a map
you say wow please dear moved 150 miles
but it’s especially impressive when you
actually look at this migration route on
the ground and see firsthand the
landscape and the obstacles that these
animals have to move through three
aiways over 100 fences and multiple
reservoir crossings the river crossings
my job as a photojournalist working on
this project is to show people what deer
migration looks like I want to show
people this type of migration footage
that gets people to envision what it’s
like to be an animal and what it’s like
to be a migrating animal it’s moving 100
miles 200 miles and try to help people
think about these long-distance
movements a lot of the areas that I
focused on is at the outlets of these
lakes called Finger Lakes one thing that
was really interesting for me is each
time I go check the camera I click
through and look through the video and
there’d be a lot of vocalizations
these migration behaviors are learned
from other offspring from generation to
generation so dare you use the same
migration route year after year after
year
what we’ve learned from this is that
this incredible migration can take place
right under our noses in the year 2012
thousands of animals 150-miles fact that
this migration can still exist in
unprotected areas in this day and age is
pretty amazing
you
you
North America especially the lower 48 we
typically think we kind of know what’s
going on and here we have hundreds of
animals migrating 150 miles across
public and private lands right
underneath our noses but we didn’t even
know about it
my name’s house lawyer and research
biologist that study in mule deer in
western Wyoming now 415 years we
recently started the Neil deer study in
the red desert of Wyoming and the study
was intended to just document the
movement and distribution patterns of
what we thought was a non-migratory a
reson occurred in the desert but to my
surprise and everybody else’s it turns
out that most of these deer migrate some
150 miles north to the mountain ranges
of Northwest one hour this new GPS
technology provides us a window into
this sort of mysterious process of
migration that we’ve never had before
when you look at this migration on a map
you say wow please dear moved 150 miles
but it’s especially impressive when you
actually look at this migration route on
the ground and see firsthand the
landscape and the obstacles that these
animals have to move through three
aiways over 100 fences and multiple
reservoir crossings the river crossings
my job as a photojournalist working on
this project is to show people what deer
migration looks like I want to show
people this type of migration footage
that gets people to envision what it’s
like to be an animal and what it’s like
to be a migrating animal it’s moving 100
miles 200 miles and try to help people
think about these long-distance
movements a lot of the areas that I
focused on is at the outlets of these
lakes called Finger Lakes one thing that
was really interesting for me is each
time I go check the camera I click
through and look through the video and
there’d be a lot of vocalizations
these migration behaviors are learned
from other offspring from generation to
generation so dare you use the same
migration route year after year after
year
what we’ve learned from this is that
this incredible migration can take place
right under our noses in the year 2012
thousands of animals 150-miles fact that
this migration can still exist in
unprotected areas in this day and age is
pretty amazing
you
you
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