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New Mexico Tesuque Pueblo Mule Deer Tesuque Pueblo Annual Range

Metadata Updated: October 30, 2025

The Tesuque Pueblo mule deer herd is primarily nonmigratory, using the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains (fig. 9). U.S. Highways 84 and 285 are the major routes from Santa Fe to areas in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, bisecting the Tesuque Pueblo reservation and creating a physical barrier for deer movement. Thus, mule deer in this herd were equipped with GPS collars to identify where mitigation efforts, like installing underpasses or fencing, may help mule deer cross busy highways successfully and reduce the number of wildlife-vehicle collisions. GPS collars were deployed on six mule deer as a part of this study: three females and three males. The female mule deer primarily used the northeastern portion of the Tesuque Pueblo reservation and the southeastern portions of the Nambe Pueblo reservation. The male mule deer primarily inhabited the urban private lands adjacent to the eastern boundary of the Tesuque Pueblo reservation. Their annual range primarily consists of pinyon pine-juniper woodlands and pinyon-juniper savannahs. The mule deer are culturally significant to the Tesuque Pueblo Tribal members. These mapping layers show the location of the annual range for mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in the Tesuque Pueblo population in Tesuque Pueblo. They were developed from 14 migration sequences collected from a sample size of 6 animals comprising GPS locations collected approximately every 4 hours.

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Metadata Created Date September 13, 2025
Metadata Updated Date October 30, 2025

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Harvested from DOI USGS DCAT-US

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Metadata Created Date September 13, 2025
Metadata Updated Date October 30, 2025
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
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Data Last Modified 2024-04-10T00:00:00Z
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