Deer Limiting Factor Codes

Code Limiting Factor Category Primarily Affects

0 Domestic livestock forage competition Habitat Management

1 Habitat succession/ maturation Habitat Management

2 Urban expansion Habitat Conservation

3 Public land habitat availability Habitat Conservation

4 Increased road densities Habitat Management

5 Riparian impacts Habitat Management

6 Timber harvest impacts Habitat Management

7 Depredation Habitat Management

8 Limited private land access Population Management

9 Artificial feeding Habitat Management

10 Habitat conversion Habitat Management

11 Social carrying capacity exceeded Population Management

12 Late seral stages needed Habitat Management

13 High Density Recreation Habitat Management

14 Water availability Habitat Management

15 Transport/Water conveyance corridors Population Management

16 Mineral Extraction/Exploration Population Management

17 Competition with other wild ungulates Habitat Management

18 Special Situation (see below) Habitat-Population Management

Areas where deer populations may occur, intermittently, or in small numbers. In some instances, the public may receive wildlife viewing, photographic or consumptive recreational uses. However, land ownership, social carrying capacity considerations, weather limitations, range conditions, and small size or configuration of the topography is not suitable to manage for increasing deer populations at the present time.Other situations could include game farms, tribal lands, past catastrophic fires, invasion of weedy species, feral horses etc.

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