GLIMPSES OF MIGRATION #2
**Turn sound on to hear the deer talking** Have any of you seen animals use a wildlife-friendly fence, or watched an animal get caught? In the second installment of our new "Glimpses" series, 20 deer cross under a beautiful wildlife-friendly fence. This fence is a great example of private land stewardship on the Red Desert to Hoback Migration Corridor.

The rancher has installed a high ~18" bottom wire for scooting under, a top wire at 42" or less, and lots of space between the top two wires to prevent jumpers from getting tangled.

It makes a difference: Watch at :55 seconds where a doe makes a standing jump and taps the top wire. She's in no danger of getting tangled thanks to the fence design.

In all, the safe-crossers in this group included 13 adults, and seven smaller yearlings or fawns-of-the year — including a potential set of twin fawns, and one male fork-horn.

Across this whole corridor, migrating deer contend with about 100 different fence crossings. The good news is that people have been working hard on fencing retrofits to make migration easier for animals. We'll have more about that in a post later this week featuring The Nature Conservancy in Wyoming....

About the clip:
UW student researcher Tanner Warder caught this clip in Sublette County in mid-October 2020 as mule deer headed south before the deep snows hit. Funding for this clip comes from the Muley Fanatic Foundation, Wyoming Research Scholars Program, and Kauffman Lab of the Wyoming Coop Unit.

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