Service Description: Elk Management Zones within Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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Description: Elk use a variety of habitats, but a mix of forest and openings, dominated by grass and herbaceous plants, is ideal. Elk also use forest openings, glades and woodland habitats. Since the mid-1990’s habitat management on public lands and other properties in and around the restoration zone have created habitat that is conducive to numerous wildlife species, including elk.
The number of elk that can be supported in
any given management zone is influenced by
many factors, including weather, habitat quality,
predation, hunter harvest, and the need to
minimize elk-based crop and property damage
(agricultural impacts). One or more of these
“limiting” factors can often prevent an elk herd
from growing further or limit the ability of wildlife
managers to maintain current elk herd numbers.
For each proposed elk zone, park staff identified
the limiting factors using flight surveys, elk
population trends over 10 or more years, changes
to available habitat, reported agricultural
impacts (crop and property damage), known or
suspected causes of elk mortality, assessments
of predator populations and predation impacts,
and other data and elk management experience.
The severity of each identified limiting factor
was classified as low, moderate, or high. Limiting factors common to most park elk populations
are predation and habitat. Severity of
these limiting factors varies across the park and
even within zones.
Copyright Text: Great Smoky Mountains National Park,
Resource Management & Science,
Wildlife Management Division
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