April 20, 2021
A mule deer buck makes its fall migration in western Wyoming. (Emilene Ostlind Photo)
A new interdisciplinary study led by University of Wyoming researchers brings together approaches from ecology, economics and law to explore emerging big-game migration corridor conservation strategies meant to protect the phenomenon of migration across vast and complex landscapes.
The research was published in the Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum under the title “Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: Conserving Big Game Migrations as an Endangered Phenomena” and can be found for free online at https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/delpf/vol31/iss1/2/.
The law review article provides detailed information about migration ecology and economic principles relevant to conserving migrations, before examining the successes and shortcomings of existing legal and policy efforts. Finally, the paper outlines a potential future legal approach with promise to both meet the biological needs