Table 3. Spatial data available for Summit County depicting the known distributions of economically important species.

Species
Activity area
Description
Elk
  Cervus elaphus
severe winter range
That part of a species’range where 90% of individuals are located when the annual snowpack is at maximum and/or temperatures are at minimum in the two worst winters out of 10; e.g., severe winter of 1983–1984.
 
Mountain goat
  Oreamnos americanus
production
areas
That part of home range of mountain goat occupied by females between 15 May and 30 June.
 
Mule deer
  Odocoileus hemionus
severe winter range
That part of the overall range where 90% of the individuals are located when annual snowpack is at its maximum and/or temperatures are at a minimum in the two worst winters out of 10.
 
Sage Grouse
  Centrocercus u. urophasianus
overall range
An area that encompasses all mapped seasonal activity areas within the observed range of a population of Sage Grouse.