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From: Drivers of habitat quality for a reintroduced elk herd

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Our study area comprised of a 20 km buffer around the Virginia Elk Management Zone (Buchanan, Dickenson, and Wise counties, Virginia, USA) including surrounding portions of eastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia in the central Appalachian Mountains in the eastern USA, 2012–2019. Land cover types included: oak, mixed hardwood, conifer, non-mined (NM) open land, surface mines, developed, and water.

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