Study Design
A total of 12 one square mile sub-areas (geographic strata) were selected.
Each plot was divided into 32 evenly spaced transacts along E/W direction and 32 evenly spaced along SW direction.
Selected transacts are determined at random.
Deer pellets collected from one set of transacts will used to “mark” known individual deer from each sub-area. Pellets collected during the second perpendicular set represent recaptures and new observations.