Counts of winter ticks on live-captured moose in western US

Data include counts of winter ticks (ticks.hind) along transects of
variable length (transect.cm.hind) on the rumps of live-captured moose in
5 western US states (state).  Other attribute data include the
moose ID, capture date, local moose density (density.category), migratory
status (migratory), presence of other ungulates on shared winter range
(shared.winter.range).  A suite of climate metrics are also
included for each record specific to that capture location and year,
labelled according to the biological season during which they were
summarized (q=questing [fall]; d=dropoff [spring]; s=summer) as described
in the manuscript.  Metrics include the proprortionate snow cover
(SnowProp), amount of snow water equivalent during midpoint and endpoint
of season (SWEmid, SWEend), mean temperature (TempMean), number of days
below 0 and -20 degrees C (TempDays0, TempDaysm20), average relative
humidity daily minimum and maximum (RHmin, RHmax), cumulative
precipitation (Precip), and landcover category (landcover). 
Lastly, also included are quadratic terms for some variables (_2) and
10-year averages of each metric spanning the study period, 2013-2022,
(_avg).