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The rangeland types included a grassland and shrub-steppe habitat. Within the state of Montana, both habitat types commonly contain peridomestic settings due to the widespread influence of the ranching industry. These peridomestic environments are where most reported human cases of Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) originate. During the study, we trapped each site twice a month in two week intervals through all weather conditions and a temperature range from -36.7 to + 40.0 °C. We accumulated 85,200 trap nights of effort and captured 6,185 individual deer mice a total of 22,654 times. We documented a total of 980 dispersing individuals over three years. Our results demonstrated no significant seasonal differences in the number of dispersing individuals. However, we did find a positive correlation between number of dispersing individuals and number of individuals captured at both sites. 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