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Evaluation of landscape pattern for wildlife is a difficult problem, one most often addressed by spatial indexes. Models of animal movement may be an alternative way to assess the impacts of landscape pattern. A dynamic programming model is formulated in this paper to address such factors as edge effects and travel cost, as well as conditions of patches such as food resources and predation. The...