Kenai National Wildlife Refuge: Dall sheep response to fire: vegetation surveys

Populations of Dall sheep (Ovis dalli) have been declining in the Chugach Range, Alaska since the 1990s (Herreman, 2018; Lohuis et al., 2018), which these authors attributed at least in part to climate-driven changes in habitat. Past research suggests that fire can increase the carrying capacity of habitat for Dall sheep (see citations listed by Herreman, 2018). To learn more specifically how fire affects Dall sheep in the Kenai Mountains, we conducted a habitat use-availability study within and near the 2019 Swan Lake Fire Burn on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. This dataset includes occurrences of plants documented as part of this project.