Table 1. Variables included in pronghorn habitat suitability modeling in Montana and Saskatchewan, including attributes used by experts in the Analytical Hierarchy Process to assess importance of the categories used within variables.

Variable	Description	Attributes	Source
Distance to wells	Distance at which pronghorn avoid wells	0–150 m, 150–1000 m, >1000 m	Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment; DNRC Montana Board of Oil and Gas 2009
Distance to water	Distance at which pronghorn remain to water sources	0–1000 m, 1000–10000 m, >10000 m	2000 National Hydrography Dataset Waterbody Features; Atlas of Canada 1,000,000 National Frameworks Data Hydrology-Drainage Network
Distance to roads	Distance at which pronghorn avoid roads	0–300 m, 300–1000 m, >1000 m	2000 TIGER, 2004 Saskatchewan Enhanced SURN Dataset
Normalized difference vegetation index	Relative greenness	>0.6, 0.3–0.6, 0.2–0.3, <0.2	Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC), located at the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science Center
Fence presence	Fence locations	Present, Absent	Modeled with Cadastral Database from Montana Department of Administration, Information Technology Services Division and Department of Revenue
Land cover	Land cover type	Water, Development, Shrublands-Grasslands, Wetlands-Riparian, Agriculture, Pasture and Perennial Crops	Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks National Gap Analysis 2000; Land Cover for Agricultural Regions of Canada
Topographic position	Position of landscape relative to surrounding landscape	Canyon bottom, Flat-gentle slopes, Steep Slopes, Ridge top	Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry of Japan and U.S. NASA