The expanding archaeological data base on the Stanislaus National Forest revealed a correspondence between prehistoric site distribution and the behavior of migratory deer. Spatial analysis of this correspondence has been proceeding along with mapping migration routes, ranges, and delay areas for four contiguous deer herds. Empirical correlation between cultural geography and deer migration patterns does not demonstrate an inherent connection between the two systems but provides a model that imparts a dynamic relationship to the static distribution of sites within the context of the Sierran environment and incorporates the testable hypothesis that populations of human hunter-gatherers and deer have similar response functions to mountain geography and variations in climate and phenology. Such a model may be applied toward explaining, in part, subsistence/settlement patterns of prehistoric montane populations, and as an element in more comprehensive predictive cultural resource models.