Table 3.

Proportion of area classified as high risk for male elk exposure to Bacillus anthracis in each land ownership classification, southwest Montana, USA based on elk locations in 2010–1012 and anthrax presence in 2008. We report the area of land with a resource selection function (RSF) bin score ≥ 5 for each land ownership. We also report the area of land predicted to support B. anthracis persistence for each land ownership category based on 3 calculations of predicted presence (conservative, moderate, and liberal). We report the area of land characterized by overlap between high RSF values and B. anthracis presence for each type of land ownership.

		B. anthracis presence			Elk RSF ≥ 5, B. anthracis presence overlap
Land ownership area (km2)	Elk RSF ≥ 5	Conservative	Moderate	Liberal	Conservative	Moderate	Liberal
Private land	579.03	342.45	445.98	615.70	195.81	253.3	354.9
Montana state land	37.71	10.94	14.88	23.37	6.64	9.08	13.28
U.S. Forest Service	439.63	20.02	38.01	86.35	16.45	32.16	72.09
Total area (km2)	1,056.36	373.41	498.86	725.43	218.90	294.54	440.27