Small Mammals of the Black Canyon and Skull Valley Planning Units, Maricopa and Yavapai Counties, Arizona

摘要

Traditionally, past wildlife habitat management on public lands has been restricted to game species. Recent policy now dictates that all Bureau of Land Management-administered lands are to be inventoried for nongame species. The first nongame inventory was completed during the spring and summer of 1978 on two planning units in central Arizona comprising some 338,000 acres of public land. Vertebrate species were surveyed for relative density, species diversity and distribution. During the course of this study a total of 50 animals were either collected or observed. In contrast, the more domestic habitats, such as riparian woodlands and interior chaparral were the least productive habitats sampled.