Assessing American Marten Use of Track-Plate Box Surveys for Estimating Population Size in the Black Hills of South Dakota

• Main Author: Smith, Joshua B.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Open PRAIRIE: Open Public Research Access Institutional Repository and Information Exchange 2007
• Subjects: american marten; track-plate surveys; bird populations; black hills; south dakota; wyoming; Natural Resources and Conservation; Black Hills; Canada; Psi; American marten; Martes americana
• Online Access: https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/etd/414; https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/context/etd/article/1414/viewcontent/SmithJoshua2007.pdf

Following a 50-year absence, American marten (Martes americana) were reintroduced into the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1980. Surveys conducted post-reintroduction indicated 2 regions of the Black Hills where sub-populations of marten existed; 1) a 246-km2 region in the northern Black Hills, and 2...