TABLE 1.

Relationship between National Land Cover Database (NLCD) land classes and the habitat groupings used to calculate this study's deer land cover utility (LCU) score.

National Land Cover Database Land Class	Assigned Habitat Group (Mori et al. 2024)
Deciduous forest	Shelter/Food
Evergreen forest
Mixed forest
Woody wetlands
Herbaceous wetlands
Shrub/scrub	Food
Grassland/herbaceous
Pasture/hay
Cultivated crops

Note: The National Land Cover Database (NLCD) Land Classes were the names of each land class from NLCD years 2001–2021 identified as deer habitat and included in this study. The habitat groups established in this study were “shelter/food,” which represented land classes that provide deer with both food and protection, while “food” represented land classes that only provide deer with food.