Habitat Model
Overall moose habitat use (including male, female, unknown adult, and
young) was best explained by 22 variables, 13 (nearly 60%) of which
were human footprint features, 5 of which were related to area burned,
and the remaining 4 were land cover predictors (Figures 3, 4). Area
burned (including areas burnt 0-5, 6-10,11-15,16-20, and 26-30 years
ago) and fescue grasslands had negative associations with moose habitat
use. Thus, all human features, including harvest, pipeline, wells,
trails, roads, recreation, borrowpits, cultivation, facilities, mines,
vegetated road edges, seismic, and transmission lines, all had positive
(albeit often small) β estimates.