Yukon Winter Tick Monitoring: Government of Yukon cervid hide harvest submissions 2011 - 2020

Data associated with Chenery et al., 2022. Improving widescale monitoring of ectoparasite presence in northern Canadian wildlife with the aid of citizen science. <br>See also ReadMe worksheet of dataset for full metadata.<br>Records of harvested hides (animal skins) of moose, elk, caribou and mule deer from Yukon, Canada, submitted to the Government of Yukon between 2011-2020. Hides and hide samples were checked for presence of the winter tick, <i>Dermacentor albipictus</i>, using a hair transect method (described in Chenery et al., 2022) and the number of ticks present recorded, along with the harvest date, sex, species and locality of kill (game management subzone). <br>Associated data relating to assessing hunter engagement with a citizen science program, the Yukon Winter Tick Monitoring Project (YWTMP) (2018-2020) are also included. These describe the level of conformity with YWTMP sample kit instructions (size of hide sample provided, information completed), and are discussed more fully in the associated manuscript.