Peer-reviewed Journal Articals

• Driese, K. L, W. A. Reiners, E. H. Merrill, and K. G. Gerow. 1997.
  A digital GIS land cover map of Wyoming: a tool for vegetation analysis.
  J. Veg. Sci. 8:133-146.
  
  
• Merrill, E. H., K. J. Raedeke, and R. D. Taber. 1995.
  Food habits and simulated diet quality of elk inhabiting early successional forests in western Washington.
  Northwest Sci. 69:9-18.
  
  
• Merrill, E. H. 1994.
  Summer foraging ecology of elk in the Mount St. Helens blast zone.
  Can. J. Zool. 72:303-311.
  
  
• Merrill, E. H., N. L. Stanton and H.C. Hak. 1994.
  Responses of bluebunch wheatgrass, Idaho fescue, and nematodes to ungulate grazing in Yellowstone National Park.
  Oikos 69:231-240.
  
  
• Merrill, E. H., L. E. Kuck, and T. A. Hemker. 1994.
  Impacts of mining facilities on fall migration of mule deer.
  Wildl. Soc. Bull. 22:68-73.
  
  
• Merrill, E. H., R. W. Marrs, M. B. Brodahl, and M. S. Boyce. 1993.
  Estimations of green herbaceous phytomass in Yellowstone National Park using remote sensing,
  J. Range Manage. 46:151-157.
  
  
• Merrill, E. H. 1992.
  Population and habitat characteristics of recolonizing elk herd.
  Pages 225-227 in B. Bobek, K. Perzanowki and W. L. Reglin, eds., Global trends in wildlife management. Vol 2. Swiat Press, Krakow, Poland.
  
  
• Merrill, E. H., 1991.
  Thermal constraints on the use of cover types and activity patterns of elk in the Mt. St. Helens blast zone.
  Appl. Anim. Behav. Sci. 29:251-267.
  
  
• Boyce, M. S. and E. H. Merrill, 1991.
  Ungulate responses to the 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park.
  Tall Timbers Fire Ecol. Proc. 17:121-132.
  
  
• Merrill, E. H. and M. S. Boyce, 1991.
  Summer range and elk population dynamics in Yellowstone National Park,
  Pages 263-272 in: Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: redefining America's wilderness heritage, R.B. Keiter and M.S. Boyce, eds., Yale Univ. Press, New Haven.
  
  
• Merrill, E. H. 1991.
  Thermal constraints on the use of cover types and activity patterns of elk in the Mt. St. Helens blast zone.
  Pages 251-267 in: E.C. Mungel, ed., Ungulate behavior and management. Elsevier Publ. Co., Amsterdam.
  
  
• Kuck, L. E., G. L. Hompland, and E. H. Merrill, 1985.
  Elk calf response to stimulated mine disturbances in Southeast Idaho,
  J. Wildl. Manage. 49: 751- 757.
  
  
• Merrill, E. H., H. F. Mayland, and J. M. Peek, 1982.
  Shrub responses after fire in an Idaho Ponderosa pine community,
  J. Wildl. Manage. 46: 496-502.
  
  
• Merrill, E. H., H. F. Mayland, and J. M. Peek, 1980.
  Effects of wildfire on herbaceous vegetation in xeric sites in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness.
  J. Range Manage. 33: 363-367.
  
  
• Merrill, E. H. 1978.
  Bear depredation at back country campgrounds in Glacier National Park,
  Wildl. Soc. Bull. 6: 123-127.
  

Popular Articles:

• Merrill, E. H., 1990.
  Ashes to elk: Mount St. Helens elk recolonizing elk herds.
  Bugle 7:75-80.
  

Symposia:

• Merrill, E. H., R. W. Marrs, M. B. Brodahl, and M. S. Boyce. 1996.
  Estimation of green herbaceous phytomass from MSS data in Yellowstone National National Park using remote sensing.
  Pages 367-375 in F. J. Singer, ed. Effects of grazing by wild ungulates in Yellowstone Naitonal Park- a report to the director. National Park Service, Natural resource information division. Denver.
  

• Merrill, E. H., J.K. Hak, and N. L. Stanton. 1994.
  Nematode responses to ungulate herbivory
  Pages 231-238. in: Plants and their environments: proceedings of the first biennial scientific conference of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, U.S. Nat. Park Ser., Nat. Resource. Publ. Off. Denver, CO.
  

• McWhirter, D., S. Smith, E. Merrill, and L. Irwin. 1992.
  The significance of agricultural lands to the winter foraging behavior of bighorn sheep.
  Northern Wild Sheep and Goat Symp. 8:264-278.
  

• Merrill, E. H. and K. J. Raedeke 1987.
  Elk harvest strategies in relation to forest succession in the Mt. St. Helens blast zone.
  Pages 198-202 in Proc. W. States and Provinces Elk Workshop, Wenatchee, WA.
  

• Raedeke, K. J., E. H. Merrill, and S. M. McCorquodale, 1986.
  Estimates of intrinsic rates of increase from three Washington elk herds,
  Pages 69-72 in: Proc. Western States Elk Workshops, Coos Bay, OR.
  

• Merrill, E. H., K. J. Raedeke, K. L. Knutson, and R. D. Taber, 1985.
  Elk recolonization of the Northwest portion of the Mount St. Helens blast zone: preliminary findings,
  Pages 172-177 in: S.A.C. Keller, ed., Mount St. Helens - five years later, Eastern Washington Univ. Press, Cheney, WA.
  

Recent Reports

• Merrill, E.H. 1998.
  Prairie Chicken Surveys in Central Wisconsin.
  University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Stevens Point, WI. 11 pp.
  

• Merrill, E. H. 1997.
  Avian diversity in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming in relation to monitoring scale.
  University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, WI. 96 pp. Final Report. Submited: Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C. 65 pp.
  

• Merrill, E.H. 1997.
  Prairie Chicken Surveys in Central Wisconsin.
  University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Stevens Point, WI. 9 pp.
  

• Merrill, E. H., T. Kohley, M. Herdendorf, W. Reiners, K. Driese, R. Marrs, and S. Anderson. 1996.
  Wyoming Gap Analysis: A geographic information system.,
  University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY. 245 pp. Final Report. Submitted: National Biological Service. 242 pp.
  

• Merrill, E. H. and R.W. Marrs. 1995.
  Remote sensing of grassland vegetation recovery after the 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park.
  Unversity of Wyoming, Laramie, WY. Final Report. Submitted: Yellowstone National Park, Mammoth, WY. 22 pp.