2006 ARIZONA’S WILDLIFE LINKAGES ASSESSMENT 41 Section VII Potential Linkage Zones SECTION VII POTENTIAL LINKAGE ZONES

Linkage 1 Linkage 2 Beaver Dam Slope – Virgin Slope Beaver Dam – Virgin Mountains Mohave Desert Ecoregion Mohave Desert Ecoregion

County: Mohave (Linkage 1: Identified Species continued) County: Mohave Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis ADOT Engineering District: Flagstaff and Kingman Mohave Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii ADOT Engineering District: Flagstaff ADOT Maintenance: Fredonia and Kingman Mountain Lion Felis concolor ADOT Maintenance: Fredonia ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Flagstaff Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Flagstaff Speckled Dace Rhinichthys osculus Spotted Bat Euderma maculatum AGFD: Region II AGFD: Region II Virgin Chub Gila seminuda Virgin Spinedace Lepidomeda mollispinis mollispinis BLM: Arizona Strip District Woundfin Plagopterus argentissimus BLM: Arizona Strip District

Congressional District: 2 Threats: Congressional District: 2 Highway (I 15) Council of Government: Western Arizona Council of Governments Urbanization Council of Government: Western Arizona Council of Governments

FHWA Engineering: A2 and A4 Hydrology: FHWA Engineering: A2 Big Bend Wash Legislative District: 3 Coon Creek Legislative District: 3 Virgin River Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Mohave Desertscrub 100% Mohave Desertscrub 100% Land Ownership: Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 59% Bureau of Land Management 93% Private 27% Private Land 2% State Trust Land 14% State Trust Land 5%

Identified Species: Identified Species: Allen’s Big-eared Bat Idioycteris phyllotis American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum Arizona Toad Bufo microscaphus Arizona Toad Bufo microscaphus Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Bobcat Lynx rufus California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Chiseled-Tooth Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys microps leucotis Common Black-hawk Buteogallus anthracinus Flannelmouth Sucker Catostomus “Pantosteus” discobolus Desert Sucker Catostomus “Pantosteus” clarki Hoary Bat Lasiurus cinereus Flannelmouth Sucker Catostomus “Pantosteus” discobolus Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis 2006 ARIZONA’S WILDLIFE LINKAGES ASSESSMENT 42 Section VII Potential Linkage Zones

Linkage 3 Cedar Rim/Fredonia Pronghorn Crossing Colorado Plateau Ecoregion

(Linkage 2: Identified Species continued) County: Mohave and Coconino (Linkage 3: continued) Mohave Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Threats: Mountain Lion Felis concolor ADOT Engineering District: Flagstaff Highway (SR 389) Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus ADOT Maintenance: Fredonia Urbanization Relict Leopard Frog Rana onca ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Flagstaff Silver-haired Bat Lasionycteris noctivagans Spotted Bat Euderma maculatum Hydrology: AGFD: Region II Utah Mountain Kingsnake Lampropeltis pyromelana Big Sand Wash infralabialis Cottonwood Creek Virgin Spinedace Lepidomeda mollispinis mollispinis BLM: Arizona Strip District Johnson Run Woundfin Plagopterus argentissimus Johnson Wash Congressional District: 1 and 2 Kanab Creek Threats: Lost Spring Wash Pipe Valley Wash Grazing Council of Government: Northern Arizona Council of Sand Wash Highway (I 15) Governments and Western Arizona Council o f Gove r nment s Sand Ridge Wash Hydrology: FHWA Engineering: A2 Sandy Canyon Wash Short Creek Black Rock Gulch South Moccasin Wash Legislative District: 3 Cedar Pockets Wash Twomile Creek Mountain Sheep Wash Sullivans Canyon Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Virgin River Great Basin Conifer Woodland 6% Great Basin Desertscrub 57% Plains & Great Basin Grassland 37%

Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 9% Tribal Land (Kaibab) 20% Private Land 43.5% State Trust Land 27.5%

Identified Species: Allen’s Big-eared Bat Idioycteris phyllotis Fringed Myotis Myotis thysanodes Grand Canyon Rattlesnake Crotalis oreganos abyssus Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Pronghorn Antilocapra americana 2006 ARIZONA’S WILDLIFE LINKAGES ASSESSMENT 43 Section VII Potential Linkage Zones

Linkage 4 Linkage 5 Kaibab – Paunsaugunt Plateau Kaibab Plateau Nor t h Ri m Colorado Plateau Ecoregion Colorado Plateau Ecore gio n

County: Coconino County: Coconino (Linkage 5: Identified Species continued) ADOT Engineering District: Flagstaff ADOT Engineering District: Flagstaff Spotted Bat Euderma maculatum ADOT Maintenance: Fredonia ADOT Maintenance: Fredonia Western Small-footed Myotis Myotis ciliolabrum ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Flagstaff ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Flagst aff Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo Threats: AGFD: Region II AGFD: Region II Highway (SR 67) BLM: BLM: Arizona Strip District Arizona Strip District Hydrology: Jacob Canyon Congressional District: 1 Congr essional District: 1 Kane Canyon Pleasant Valley Outlet Counc il of Government: Northern Arizona Council of Council of Government: Northern Arizona Council of Rock Canyon Governments Governments Warm Springs Canyon Wildcat Canyon FHWA Engineering: A2 FHWA Engineering: A2

Legislative District: 3 Legislative District: 2 and 3

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Great Basin Conifer Woodland 42% Great Basin Conifer Woodland 28% Great Basin Desertscrub 20% Petran Montane Conifer Forest 64% Plains & Great Basin Grassland 1% Plains & Great Basin Grassland 1% *Note: Linkage extends into Utah Subalpine Grassland 7%

Land Ownership: Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 51% Bureau of Land Management < 0.1% State Trust Land 12% USDA Forest Service (Kaibab) 99.7% *Note: Linkage extends into Utah National Park Service (Grand Canyon) < 0.1% Private Land < 0.1% Identified Species: Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Identified Species: Mountain Lion Felis concolor American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus Threats: Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Highway (US 89, US 89A) Long-eared Myotis Myotis evotis Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Hydrology: Mountain Lion Felis concolor None identified at this time Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis Pine Grosbeak Pinicola enucleator 2006 ARIZONA’S WILDLIFE LINKAGES ASSESSMENT 44 Section VII Potential Linkage Zones

Linkage 6 Linkage 7 Paria Plateau – Kaibab Plateau Skeleton Mesa – Black Mesa Colorado Plateau Ecoregion Colorado Plateau Ecoregion

County: Coconino County County: Navajo (Linkage 6: continued) Threats: ADOT Engineering District: Flagstaff ADOT Engineering District: Holbrook Highway (SR 89A, BLM Road 1065) ADOT Maintenance: ADOT Maintenance: Fredonia and Page Recreational Traffic (vehicular, pedestrian) Kayenta ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Flagstaff ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Flagstaff Hydrology: AGFD: Region I and Region II Badger Creek AGFD: Region I Colorado River BLM: Arizona Strip District and Phoenix District Emmett Wash BLM: Phoenix District House Rock Wash Congressional District: 1 Soap Creek Congressional District: 1 South Fork Soap Creek Council of Government: Northern Arizona Council of Council of Government: Northern Arizona Council of Governments Governments

FHWA Engineering: A2 FHWA Engineering: A4

Legislative District: 2 and 3 Legislative District: 2

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Great Basin Desertscrub 67% Great Basin Conifer Woodland 62% Plains & Great Basin Grassland 33% Great Basin Desertscrub 19% Plains & Great Basin Grassland 19% Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 96% Land Ownership: National Park Service Tribal Land (Navajo) 100% (Glen Canyon, Grand Canyon) 1% Private Land 2% Identified Species: State Trust Land 1% Black Bear Ursus americanus Tribal Land (Navajo) < 0.1% Hopi Rattlesnake Crotalus viridis nu ntius USDA Forest Service (Kaibab) 1% Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Identified Species: Navajo Mexican Vole Microtus mexicanus navaho American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum Threats: Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Chisel-toothed Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys microps leucotis Highway (US 160) Mountain Lion Felis concolor Ranching Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Hydrology: Pronghorn Antilocapra americana Laguna Creek Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Shonto Wash Tsegi Canyon 2006 ARIZONA’S WILDLIFE LINKAGES ASSESSMENT 45 Section VII Potential Linkage Zones

Linkage 8 Linkage 9 Chinle Valley – Chuska Mountains Chuska Mountains – New Mexico Colorado Plateau Ecoregion Arizona/New Mexico Mountains Ecoregion

County: Apache (Linkage 8: Hydrology continued) County: Apache Black Mountain Wash ADOT Engineering District: Holbrook Chinle Wash Cottonwood Wash ADOT Engineering District: Holbrook ADOT Maintenance: Kayenta and Page Hasbidito Wash ADOT Maintenance: Kayenta and Page ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Flagstaff Lukachukai Wash ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Flagstaff Nazlini Wash Red Wash AGFD: Region I A:GFD Region I Sheep Dip Wash Trading Post Wash BLM: Phoenix District BLM: Phoenix District

Congressional District: 1 Congressional District: 1

Council of Government: Northern Arizona Council of Council of Government: Northern Arizona Council of Governments Governments

FHWA Engineering: A4 FHWA Engineering: A4

Legislative District: 2 Legislative District: 2

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Great Basin Desertscrub 73% Great Basin Conifer Woodland 8% Plains & Great Basin Grassland 27% Great Basin Desertscrub 5% Petran Montane Conifer Forest 22% Land Ownership: Petran Subalpine Conifer Forest 5% Tribal Land (Navajo) 100% Plains & Great Basin Grassland 7% Subalpine Grassland 1% Identified Species: *Note: Half of Linkage is in New Mexico Black Bear Ursus americanus Black-Billed Magpie Pica hudsonia Land Ownership: Hopi Rattlesnake Crotalus viridis nuntius Tribal Land (Navajo) 48% Mountain Lion Felis concolor *Note: Half of Linkage is in New Mexico Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Northern Leopard Frog Rana pipiens Identified Species: Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypug aea Elk Cervus elaphus Hopi Rattlesnake Crotalus viridis nuntius Threats: Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Highway Threat (US 191) Riparian Obligates Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo Hydrology: Agua Sal Creek 2006 ARIZONA’S WILDLIFE LINKAGES ASSESSMENT 46 Section VII Potential Linkage Zones

Linkage 10 Mount Tipton - Mount Perkins Mohave Desert Ecoregion

(Linkage 9: continued) County: Mohave Threats: (Linkage 10: Identified Species continued) Highway (SR 504) ADOT Engineering District: Kingman Relict Leopard Frog Rana onca Urbanization ADOT Maintenance: Kingman Speckled Rattlesnake Crotalus mitchellii ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott Hydrology: Threats: Black Creek A:GFD Region III Highway (US 93) Blackhorse Creek Border Security Threat Burros Blackrock Wash BLM: Colorado River District Bonita Creek Buell Wash Hydrology: Congressional District: 2 Coyote Wash Colorado River Horse Mesa Wash Pine Wash Council of Government: Western Arizona Council of Governments Red Wash Sanostee Wash FHWA Engineering: A4 Standing Redrock Creek Twin Buttes Wash Legislative District: 3 Wheatfields Creek Whiskey Creek Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): White Spring Wash Mohave Desertscrub 100%

Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 12.5% National Parks Service (Lake Mead) 86.5% State Trust Land 1%

Identified Species: American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Bobcat Lynx rufus Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Mohave Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Mountain Li on Felis concolor Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii pallescens Razorback Sucker Xyrauchen texanus 2006 ARIZONA’S WILDLIFE LINKAGES ASSESSMENT 47 Section VII Potential Linkage Zones

Linkage 11 Linkage 12 Grand Canyon – Prescott National Forest Coconino Plateau – Kaibab National Forest Apache Highlands Ecoregion Apache Highlands Ecoregion Colorado Plateau Ecoregion Arizona/New Mexico Mountains Ecoregion Colorado Plateau Ecoregion County: Coconino and Yavapai (Linkage 11: Identified Species continued) Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus County: Coconino ADOT Engineering District: Flagstaff and Kingman Gunnison’s Prairie Dog Cynomys gunnisoni ADOT Maintenance: Fredonia, Kingman, Seligman and Williams Mountain Lion Felis concolor ADOT Engineering District: Flagstaff Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Flagstaff and ADOT Maintenance: Williams Prairie Falcon Falco mexicanus Prescott ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Flagstaff Pronghorn Antilocapra americana Rough-legged Hawk Buteo lagopus AGFD: Region II and Region III AGFD: Region II and Region III Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus Spotted Bat Euderma maculatum BLM: Colorado River District and Phoenix District Swainson’s Hawk Buteo swainsoni BLM: Phoenix District Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunilaria hypugaea Congressional District: 1 and 2 Congressional District: 1 Threats: Council of Government: Northern Arizona Council of Highway (I-40) Council of Government: Northern Arizona Council of Governments and Western Arizona Council of Governments Railroad Governments Urbanization FHWA Engineering: A2 and A4 FHWA Engineering: A2 Hydrology: Legislative District: 1, 2, 3 and 4 Ash Fork Draw Legislative District: 1 Big Chino Wash Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Black Tank Wash Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Great Basin Conifer Woodland 34% Chino Wash Great Basin Conifer Woodland 59% Great Basin Desertscrub 2% Eightmile Creek Petran Montane Conifer Forest 3% Plains & Great Basin Grassland 64% Havasu Creek Plains & Great Basin Grassland 38% Johnson Creek Land Ownership: Little Canyon Creek Land Ownership: Private Land 67% Markham Wash National Parks Service (Grand Canyon) 0.5% State Trust Land 33% Meath Wash Private Land 61.5% Tribal Land (Havasupai; Hualupai) < 0.1% Monument Wash State Trust Land 35% USDA Forest Service (Kaibab; Prescott) < 0.1% Partridge Creek USDA Forest Service (Kaibab) 3% Pineveta Creek Identified Species: Sandstone Wash Identified Species: Truxton Wash American Kestrel Falco sparverius Elk Cervus elaphus Turkey Canyon Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Barn Owl Tyto alba Mountain Lion Felis concolor Black Footed Ferret Mustela nigripes Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis Elk Cervus elaphus Pronghorn Antilocapra americana Ferruginous Hawk Buteo regalis Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos 2006 ARIZONA’S WILDLIFE LINKAGES ASSESSMENT 48 Section VII Potential Linkage Zones

Linkage 13 South Rim Grand Canyon Colorado Plateau Ecoregion

(Linkage 12: continued) County: Coconino (Linkage 13: continued) Threats: Hydrology: Highway (SR 64) ADOT Engineering District: Flagstaff Deer Tank Wash Railroad ADOT Maintenance: Gray Mountain Lee Canyon Urbanization ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Flagstaff Little Colorado River Hydrology: AGFD: Region I and Region II Cataract Creek Coconino Creek BLM: Phoenix District Little Red Horse Wash Martin Dam Draw Miller Wash Congressional District: 1 and 2 Monument Wash Pine Creek Wash Council of Government: Northern Arizona Council of Rain Tank W ash Governments Red Horse Wash Red Lake Wash FHWA Engineering: A2 Spring Valley Wash Legislative District: 1 and 2

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Great Basin Conifer Woodland 97% Great Basin Desertscrub 3%

Land Ownership: Private Land 2% Tribal Land (Navajo) 52% USDA Forest Service (Kaibab) 46%

Identified Species: American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Elk Cervus elaphus Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus

Threats: Highway (SR 64) Urbanization 2006 ARIZONA’S WILDLIFE LINKAGES ASSESSMENT 49 Section VII Potential Linkage Zones

Linkage 14 Linkage 15 Valle - Bellemont Garland – Arizona Divide Apache Highlands Ecoregion Arizona/New Mexico Mountains Ecoregion Arizona/New Mexico Mountains Ecoregion (Linkage 14: Identified Species continued) County: Coconino County: Coconino Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Navajo Mexican Vole Microtus mexicanus navaho ADOT Engineering District: Flagstaff ADOT Engineering District: Flagstaff Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis ADOT Maintenance: Flagstaff, Little Antelope and Williams ADOT Maintenance: Flagstaff and Williams Northern Leopard Frog Rana pipiens ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Flagstaff ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Flagstaff Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii pallescens AGFD: Region II Pronghorn Antilocapra americana AGFD: Region II Threats: BLM: Phoenix District BLM: Phoenix District Highway (US 180) Urbanization Congressional District: 1 Congressional District: 1 Hydrology: Council of Government: Flagstaff Metropolitan Planning Council of Government: Flagstaff Metropolitan Planning Rio de Flag Organization and Northern Arizona Council of Governments Organization and Northern Arizona Council of Governments Schultz Creek FHWA Engineering: A2 FHWA Engineering: A2 Legislative District: 1 and 2 Legislative District: 1 and 2 Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Great Basin Conifer Woodland 8% Great Basin Conifer Woodland 31% Petran Montane Conifer Forest 84% Petran Montane Conifer Forest 61% Plains & Great Basin Grassland 8% Plains & Great Basin Grassland 8% Land Ownership: Land Ownership: Military Land (Navajo Army Depot) 8% Private Land 18% Private Land 26% State Trust Land 5% State Trust Land 20% USDA Forest Service (Coconino; Kaibab) 77% USDA Forest Service (Coconino; Kaibab) 46%

Identified Species: Identified Species: Allen’s Big-eared Bat Idionycteris phyllotis Arizona Myotis Myotis occultus American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum Elk Cervus elaphus Arizona Myotis Myotis occultus Fringed Myotis Myotis thysanodes Black Bear Ursus americanus Little Colorado Spinedace Lepidomeda vittata Elk Cervus elaphus Long-eared Myotis Myotis evotis Fringed Myotis Myotis thysanodes Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Long-eared Myotis Myotis evotis Mexican Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis lucida Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mexican Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis lu cida Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Mountain Lion Felis concolor Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis 2006 ARIZONA’S WILDLIFE LINKAGES ASSESSMENT 50 Section VII Potential Linkage Zones

Linkage 16 Flagstaff Arizona/New Mexico Mountains Ecoregion

(Linkage 15: Identified Species continued) County: Coconino Osprey Pandion haliaetus (Linkage 16: continued) Pronghorn Antilocapra americana ADOT Engineering District: Flagstaff Threats: Riparian Obligates ADOT Maintenance: Flagstaff and Little Antelope Highway (I 40) ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Flagstaff Railroad Threats: Urbanization Agriculture AGFD: Region II Highway (I 40) Hydrology: Railroad Rio de Flag BLM: Phoenix District Urbanization Sinclair Wash Congressional District: Hydrology: 1 Dogtown Wash Council of Government: Sinclair Wash Flagstaff Metropolitan Planning Sycamore Creek Organization Volunteer Wash FHWA Engineering: A2

Legislative District: 1 and 2

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Petran Montane Conifer Forest 100%

Land Ownership: Game and Fish Land 1% Private Land 85% State Trust Land 13% USDA Forest Service (Coconino) 2%

Identified Species: Allen’s Big-eared Bat Idionycteris phyllotis Arizona Myotis Myotis occultus Black Bear Ursus americanus Elk Cervus elaphus Fringed Myotis Myotis thysanodes Gray Fox Urocyon cinereoargenteus Mexican Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis lucida Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis Riparian Obligates 2006 ARIZONA’S WILDLIFE LINKAGES ASSESSMENT 51 Section VII Potential Linkage Zones

Linkage 17 Linkage 18 Deadman Mesa – Gray Mountain Black Mountains – Cerbat Mountains Arizona/New Mexico Mountains Ecoregion Mohave Desert Ecoregion Colorado Plateau Ecoregion County: Mohave County: Coconino (Linkage 17: Identified Species continued) Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo ADOT Engineering District: Kingman ADOT Engineering District: Flagstaff Wupatki Arizona Pocket Mouse Perognathus amplus cineris ADOT Maintenance: Kingman ADOT Maintenance: Flagstaff and Gray Mountain ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Flagstaff Threats: Agriculture AGFD: Region III AGFD: Region I and Region II Highway (SR 89) Urbanization BLM: Colorado River District BLM: Phoenix District Hydrology: Congressional District: 2 Deadman Wash Congressional District: 1 Hulls Wash Rio de Flag Council of Government: Western Arizona Council of Governments Council of Government: Flagstaff Metropolitan Planning Organization and Northern Arizona Council of Governments FHWA Engineering: A4

FHWA Engineering: A2 Legislative District: 3

Legislative District: 1 and 2 Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Mohave Desertscrub 58% Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Semidesert Grassland 42% Great Basin Conifer Woodland 16% Great Basin Desertscrub 9% Land Ownership: Petran Montane Conifer Forest 41% Bureau of Land Management 37% Plains & Great Basin Grassland 34% Private Land 46% State Trust Land 17% Land Ownership: National Parks Service (Wupatki) 3% Identified Species: Private Land 41% Allen’s Big-eared Bat Idionycteris phyllotis State Trust Land 15% American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum Tribal Land (Navajo) 9% Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater USDA Forest Service (Coconino) 32% Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Bobcat Lynx rufus Identified Species: Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Black Bear Ursus americanus Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Elk Cervus elaphus Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Mexican Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis lucida Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Pronghorn Antilocapra americana pallescens Riparian Obligates Speckled Rattlesnake Crotalus mitchellii 2006 ARIZONA’S WILDLIFE LINKAGES ASSESSMENT 52 Section VII Potential Linkage Zones

Linkage 19 Mount Perkins – Warm Springs Mohave Desert Ecoregion

(Linkage 18: Identified Species continued) County: Mohave Swainson’s Hawk Buteo swainsoni (Linkage 19: Identified Species continued) Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea ADOT Engineering District: Kingman Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii ADOT Maintenance: Kingman pallescens Threats: ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott Speckled Rattlesnake Crotalus mitchellii Highway (SR 93) Swainson’s Hawk Buteo swainsoni Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Urbanization AGFD: Region III Hydrology: Threats: BLM: Colorado River District Big Wash Burros Sacramento Wash Highway (SR 68) Congressional District: 2 Tennessee Wash Urbanization

Council of Government: Western Arizona Council of Governments Hydrology: None Identified FHWA Engineering: A4

Legislative District: 3

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Great Basin Conifer Woodland 5% Mohave Desertscrub 95%

Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 82% Private Land 11% State Trust Land 7%

Identified Species: Allen’s Big-eared Bat Idionycteris phyllotis American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Bobcat Lynx rufus Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mohave Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Photo by Mark Freitag 2006 ARIZONA’S WILDLIFE LINKAGES ASSESSMENT 53 Section VII Potential Linkage Zones

Linkage 20 Linkage 21 Hualapai Mountains – Cerbat Mountains I-40 and US 93 – Kingman Apache Highlands Ecoregion Apache Highlands Ecoregion Mohave Desert Ecoregion Sonoran Desert Ecoregion (Linkage 5: Identified Species continued) County: Mohave Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus County: Mohave Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii ADOT Engineering District: Kingman pallescens ADOT Engineering District: Kingman ADOT Maintenance: Kingman Speckled Rattlesnake Crotalus mitchellii ADOT Maintenance: Kingman, Seligman and Wikieup ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott Swainson’s Hawk Buteo swainsoni ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea AGFD: AGFD: Region III Threats: Region III Highway (I 40) BLM: Colorado River District BLM: Colorado River District Railroad Urbanization Congressional District: 2 Congressional District: 2 Hydrology: Council of Government: Western Arizona Council of Governments None Identified Council of Government: Western Arizona Council of Governments

FHWA Engineering: A4 FHWA Engineering: A4

Legislative District: 3 Legislative District: 3

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Mohave Desertscrub 24% AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 10% Semidesert Grassland 76% Great Basin Conifer Woodland 41% Interior Chaparral 15% Land Ownership: Semidesert Grassland 34% Bureau of Land Management 4% Game and Fish Land < 1% Land Ownership: Private Land 86% Bureau of Land Management 4% State Trust Land 11% Private Land 54% State Trust Land 42% Identified Species: Tribal Land (Hualapai; Allotments) <1% Allen’s Big-eared Bat Idionycteris phyllotis American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum Identif ied Species: Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Bobcat Lynx rufus Arizona Toad Bufo microscaphus Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos Chiracahua Leopard Frog Rana chiricahuensis Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Photo by Ron Horloff Desert Sucker Catostomus clarki Mohave Desert T ortoise Gopherus agassizii Elk Cervus elaphus Mountain Lion Felis concolor 2006 ARIZONA’S WILDLIFE LINKAGES ASSESSMENT 54 Section VII Potential Linkage Zones

Linkage 22 Big Black Mesa – Hell Canyon Apache Highlands Ecoregion

(Linkage 21: Identified Species continued) (Linkage 21: Hydrology continued) County: Yavapai Fringed Myotis Myotis thysanodes Moss Wash Gambel’s Quail Callipepla gambelii Peacock Wash ADOT Engineering District: Kingman and Prescott Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Pearson Falls Wash ADOT Maintenance: Prescott and Seligman Javelina Tayassu tajacu Pilgrim Wash ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Trout Creek Longfin Dace Agosia chrysogaster Truxton Wash AGFD: Region II and Region III Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Tuckayou Wash Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis Wheeler Wash Mohave Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Willow Creek BLM: Phoenix District Mountain Lion Felis concolor Wright Canyon Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Congressional District: 1 Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii pallescens Council of Government: Northern Arizona Council of Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Governments Pronghorn Antilocapra americana Roundtail Chub Gila robusta FHWA Engineering: A4 Sonora Sucker Catostomus insignis Swainson’s Hawk Buteo swainsoni Legislative District: 1 Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Threats: Great Basin Conifer Woodland 93% Highway (I 40; US 93) Plains & Great Basin Grassland 7% Urbanization Land Ownership: Hydrology: Private Land <1% Antelope Wash State Trust Land <1% Ash Creek USDA Forest Service Land (Kaibab; Prescott) 100% Big Sandy River Bottleneck Wash Identified Species: Cane Springs Wash Black Bear Ursus americanus Cottonwood Creek Bobcat Lynx rufus East Ash Creek Elk Cervus elaphus Francis Creek Mountain Lion Felis concolor Frees Wash Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Gonzales Wash Pronghorn Antilocapra americana Hackberry Wash Kabba Wash Knight Creek Threats: Lookout Wash Highway (SR 89) McGarrys Wash Railroad McGee Wash Urbanization 2006 ARIZONA’S WILDLIFE LINKAGES ASSESSMENT 55 Section VII Potential Linkage Zones

Linkage 23 Oak Creek Canyon – Munds Park Arizona/New Mexico Mountains Ecoregion

(Linkage 22: continued) County: Mohave and Coconino (Linkage 23: Identified Species continued) Hydrology: Mountain Lion Felis concolor Hell Canyon ADOT Engineering District: Flagstaff Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Page Wash ADOT Maintenance: Little Antelope Narrow-headed Gartersnake Thamnophis rufipunctatus Wagon Tire Wash ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Flagstaff and Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis Northern Leopard Frog Rana pipiens Prescott Northern Mexican Gartersnake Thamnophis eques megalops Pine Grosbeak Pinicola enucleator AGFD: Region II Pronghorn Antilocapra americana Speckled Dace Rhinichthys osculus BLM: Phoenix District Western Small-footed Myotis Myotis ciliolabrum Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo Congressional District: 1 Threats: Council of Government: Flagstaff Metropolitan Planning Agriculture Organization and Northern Arizona Council of Governments Highway (I 17) Urbanization FHWA Engineering: A2 Hydrology: Legislative District: 1 and 2 Oak Creek Pumphouse Wash Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Schoolhouse Draw Great Basin Conifer Woodland 5% Sinclair Wash Interior Chaparral 22% West Fork Oak Creek Petran Montane Conifer Forest 73% Woody Wash

Land Ownership: Private Land 12% State Trust Land 3% USDA Forest Service (Coconino) 85%

Identified Species: Allen’s Big-eared Bat Idionycteris phyllotis American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum Arizona Myotis Myotis occultus Elk Cervus elaphus Black Bear Ursus americanus Gray F ox Urocyon cinereoargenteus Fringed Myotis Myotis thysanodes Long-eared Myotis Myotis evotis Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis Mexican Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis lucida 2006 ARIZONA’S WILDLIFE LINKAGES ASSESSMENT 56 Section VII Potential Linkage Zones

Linkage 24 Linkage 25

Cottonwood - Sedona State Route 179 Apache Highlands Ecoregion Apache Highlands Ecoregion Arizona/New Mexico Mountains Ecoregion Arizona/New Mexico Mountains Ecoregion (Linkage 24: Identified Species continue d) County: Yavapai Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus County: Coconino and Yavapai Northern Mexican Gartersnake Thamnophis eques megalops ADOT Engineering District: Flagstaff and Prescott Pronghorn Antilocapra americana ADOT Engineering District: Flagstaff and Prescott ADOT Maintenance: Cordes Junction and Little Antelope Roundtail Chub Gila robusta ADOT Maintenance: Cordes Junction and Little Antelope ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Flagstaff and Sonora Sucker Catostomus insignis ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott Speckled Dace Rhinichthys osculus Prescott Riparian Obligates AGFD: Region II Western Red Bat Lasiurus blossevillii AGFD: Region II and Region III Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus occidentalis BLM: Phoenix District BLM: Phoenix District Threats: Congressional District: 1 Congressional District: 1 Highway (SR 89A) Urbanization Council of Government: Northern Arizona Council of Council of Government: Northern Arizona Council of Governments Governments Hydrology: Coffee Creek FHWA Engineering: A2 and A4 FHWA Engineering: A2 and A4 Dry Creek Oak Creek Legislative District: 1 Legislative District: 1 Soldier Wash Spring Creek Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 9% Great Basin Conifer Woodland 43% Great Basin Conifer Woodland 91% Interior Chaparral 1% Semidesert Grassland 56% Land Ownership: Private Land 22% Land Ownership: USDA Forest Service (Coconino) 78% Game and Fish Land <1% Private Land 37% Identified Species: State Trust Land 23.5% American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum USDA Forest Service (Coconino) 39.5% Arizona Toad Bufo microscaphus Common Black-hawk Buteogallus anthracinus Identified Species: Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis Arizona Toad Bufo microscaphus Mountain Lion Felis concolor Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Common Black-hawk Buteogallus anthracinus Narrow-headed Gartersnake Thamnophis rufipunctatus Desert Sucker Catostomus clarki Northern Mexican Gartersnake Thamnophis eques megalops Gila Chub Gila intermedia Pronghorn Antilocapra americana Gila Topminnow Poeciliopsis occidentalis occidentalis Roundtail Chub Gila robusta Longfin Dace Agosia chrysogaster Sonora Sucker Catostomus insignis Mountain Lion Felis concolor Speckled Dace Rhinichthys osculus

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Linkage 26 Northern I-17 Corridor Apache Highlands Ecoregion Arizona/New Mexico Mountains Ecoregion (Linkage 25: Identified Species continued) Terrestrial and Riparian Obligates County: Coconino and Yavapai (Linkage 26: Identified Species continued) Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus Gray Fox Urocyon cinereoargenteus occidentalis ADOT Engineering District: Flagstaff and Prescott Fringed Myotis Myotis thysanodes ADOT Maintenance: Cordes Junction and Little Antelope Gila Chub Gila intermedia Threats: ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Flagstaff and Long-eared Myotis Myotis evotis Longfin Dace Agosia chrysogaster Highway (SR 179) Presco tt Urbanization Mexican Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis lucida Mountain Lion Felis concolor AGFD: Region II and Region III Hydrology: Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis Dry Beaver Creek BLM: Phoenix District Jacks Canyon Northern Leopard Frog Rana pipiens Oak Creek Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Congressional District: 1 pallescens Pronghorn Antilocapra americana Council of Government: Northern Arizona Council of Roundtail Chub Gila robusta Governments Sonora Sucker Catostomus insignis Southwestern Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii extimus FHWA Engineering: A2 and A4 Speckled Dace Rhinichthys osculus Spikedace Meda fulgida Legislative District: 1 Terrestrial and Riparian Obligates White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 31% Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus Great Basin Conifer Woodland 51% occidentalis Petran Montane Conifer Forest 14% Semidesert Grassland 4% Threats: Agriculture Land Ownership: Highway (I 17) National Parks Service (Montezuma Castle) 1% Urbanization Private Land 21% Tribal Land (Yavapai Apache) <1% Hydrology: USDA Forest Service (Coconino) 78% Beaver Creek Dry Beaver Creek Identified Species: Rarick Canyon Allen’s Big-eared Bat Idionycteris phyllotis Rattlesnake Canyon Arizona Myotis Myotis occultus Russell Wash Black Bear Ursus americanus Verde River Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Wet Beaver Creek Chiracahua Leopard Frog Rana chiricahuensis Desert Sucker Catostomus clarki Elk Cervus elaphus 2006 ARIZONA’S WILDLIFE LINKAGES ASSESSMENT 58 Section VII Potential Linkage Zones

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Mogollon Rim - Navajo Nation Arizona/New Mexico Mountains Ecoregion Colorado Plateau Ecoregion (Linkage 27: continued) (Linkage 27: Hydrology continued) County: Apache, Coconino and Navajo Identified Species: Billy Wash American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum Black Canyon ADOT Engineering District: Holbrook, Flagstaff and Globe Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus Blairs Spring Wash ADOT Maintenance: Chambers, Flagstaff, Holbrook, Keams Bobcat Lynx rufus Brookbank Canyon Canyon, Show Low, Springerville, St. Johns and Winslow Elk Cervus elaphus Brown Creek Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis Canyon Diablo ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Flagstaff Gray Fox Urocyon cinereoargenteus Carnero Creek

Gunnison’s Prairie Dog Cynomys gunnisoni Carr L. Wash AGFD: Region I and Region II Little Colorado Spinedace Lepidomeda vittata Carrizo Wash Little Colorado Sucker Catostomus sp.3 Cedar Lake Wash BLM: Phoenix District and Gila District Mexican Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis lucida Cheney Draw Mountain Plover Charadrius montanus Chevelon Canyon Congressional District: 1 Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Chimney Wash Navajo Mexican Vole Microtus mexicanus navaho Clear Creek Council of Government: Flagstaff Metropolitan Planning Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis Concho Flat Wash Organization and Northern Arizona Council of Governments Pronghorn Antilocapra americana Cottonwood Wash Roundtail Chub Gila robusta Coyote Creek FHWA Engineering: A2 and A4 Speckled Dace Rhinichthys osculus Crazy Creek Springerville Pocket Mouse Perognathus flavus goodpasteri Dead Wash Legislative District: 1, 2 and 5 Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus Digger Wash occidentalis Dodson Wash

White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus Dry Wash Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo East Fork Dry Wash Great Basin C o nifer Woodland 21.5% East Twin Wash Great Basin Desertscrub 10% Threats: East Washboard Wash Petran Montane Conifer Forest 1% Agriculture Fern Feather Wash Plains & Great Basin Grassland 67.5% Highway (I 40; SR 61; SR 77; SR 87; SR 99; SR 260; SR Fivemile Wash

277; SR 377; US 180; US 191) Grapevine Ca nyon Land Ownership: Railroad Grapevine Creek Bureau of Land Management 5% Urbanization Greer Wash County Land <1% Wind Power Generation Proposals Hardscrabble Wash Game and Fish Land <1% Hay Hollow Draw Private Land 60% Hydrology: Humpy Wash State Trust Land 34% A lamo Wash Jacks Canyon Tribal Land Amity Ditch Jaralosa Draw (Navajo; Navajo Reservation Trust; Zuni; Anderson Canyon Jarvis Wash Indian Allotments) 0.5% Babbitt Wash Jim Camp Wash USDA Forest Service Beaver Dam Wash Joseph City Wash (Apache-Sitgreaves; Coconino) 0.5% Big Ditch Leroux Wash

Big Hollow Wash Lithodendron Wash

Little Colorado River

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North – South Petrified Forest Colorado Plateau Ecoregion (Linkage 27: Hydrology continued) (Linkage 27: Hydrology continued) Little Milky Wash Vigil Run County: Apache Lower Lyman Ditch Wallace Ca nyon Lyman Ditch Walnut Creek ADOT Engineering District: Holbrook Manila Wash Washboard Wash ADOT Maintenance: Chambers and Holbrook Mcdonalds Canyon Water Canyon Creek ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Flagstaff Mesa Wash West Twin Wash

Mexican Hollow Wash Wild Cow Wash AGFD: Region I Middle Lyman Ditch Wildcat Creek Milky Wash Wildhorse wash Mineral Creek Yaeger Canyon BLM: Gila District Mineral Ditch Yellow Jacket Canyon Ninemile Wash Youngs Canyon Congressional District: 1 Nutrioso Creek Zuni River Oso Draw Council of Government: Northern Arizona Council of Padre Canyon Governments Phoenix Park Wash Picnic Creek FHWA Engineering: A4 Pierce Wash Pine Springs Wash Legislative District: 2 and 5 Porter Tank Draw Pueblo Colorado Wash Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Puerco River Plains & Great Basin Grassland 100% Pulcifer Creek

Rock Creek Land Ownership: Rocky Arroyo San Francisco Wash Bureau of Land Management 3% Sand Draw National Parks Service (Petrified Forest) 65% Scott Wash Private Land 31% Sears Wash State Trust Land 0.5% Sepulveda Creek Tribal Land (Navajo) 0.5% Seven Springs Wash Sevenmile Draw Identified Species: Show Low Creek Gunnison’s Prairie Dog Cynomys gunnisoni Silver Creek Pronghorn Antilocapra americana South Fork Little Colorado River Squaw Wash Threats: Surprise Creek Highway (I 40) Tanner Wash Railroad Teds Wash Urbanization The Canal Tucker Flat Wash Hydrology: Upper Lyman Ditch Dead Wash

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Warm Springs – Hualapai Mountains Warm Springs – Aubrey Peak Mohave Desert Ecoregion Mohave Desert Ecoregion

County: Mohave County: Mohave (Linkage 29: Identified Species continued) ADOT Engineering District: Kingman Speckled Rattlesnake Crotalus mitchellii ADOT Engineering District: Kingman ADOT Maintenance: Needle Mountain Swainson’s Hawk Buteo swainsoni ADOT Maintenance: Needle Mountain ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott

Threats: AGFD: Region III AGFD: Region III Highway (I 40)

Industry BLM: Colorado River District Urbanization BLM: Colorado River District

Congressional District: 2 Hydrology: Congressional District: 2 Sacramento Wash Council of Government: Western Arizona Council of Governments Walnut Creek Council of Government: Western Arizona Council of Governments

FHWA Engineering: A4 FHWA Engineering: A4

Legislative District: 3 Legislative District: 3

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Mohave Desertscrub 100% Mohave Desertscrub 100%

Land Ownership: Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 43% Bureau of Land Management 42% Private Land 57% Private Land 58% State Trust Land <1% Identified Species: Identified Species: American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum Allen’s Big-eared Bat Idionycteris phyllotis Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Bobcat Lynx rufus Bobcat Lynx rufus Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Kingman Springsnail Pyrgulopsis conica Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Mohave Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Mohave Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Pale Townsend’s Big-Eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Pale Townsend’s Big-Eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii pallescens pallescens Speckled Rattlesnake Crotalus mitchellii

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The Needles – Mohave Mountains Arizona/New Mexico Mountains Ecoregion Mohave Desert Ecoregion (Linkage 30: Identified Species continued) Swainson’s Hawk Buteo swainsoni County: Mohave (Linkage 31: Identified Species continued) Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis ADOT Engineering District: Kingman Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Threats: ADOT Maintenance: Needle Mountain Mohave Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Burros ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Highway (I 40) Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Railroad A:GFD Region III and IV Urbanization pallescens Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus BLM: Hydrology: Colorado River District Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii

Buck Mountain Wash Speckled Rattlesnake Crotalus mitchellii Congressional District: 2 Franconia W ash Swainson’s Hawk Buteo swainsoni Sacramento W ash Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Council of Government: Western Arizona Council of Governments Yuma Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris yumanensis Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis FHWA Engineering: A4 Threats: Legislative District: 3 Highway (SR 95) Urbanization Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100% Hydrology: Falls Springs Wash Land Ownership: Neptune Wash Bureau of Land Management 39% Private Land 15% State Trust Land 45% Wildlife Refuge (Havasu) 1%

Identified Species: American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Bobcat Lynx rufus California Leaf-Nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Photo by Peter LaTour rette Cave M yotis Myotis velifer Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Flannelmouth Sucker Catostomus latipinnis Fringed Myotis Myotis thysanodes

Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Photo by Dr. J. Scott Altenbach

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Bill Williams – Aubrey Hills Hualapai Mountains - Bagdad Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Apache Highlands Ecoregion Mohave Desert Ecoregion County: Mohave (Linkage 32: Identified Species continued) Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Mountain Lion Felis concolor ADOT Engineering District: Kingman Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus County: Mohave and Yavapai ADOT Maintenance: Needle Mountain Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott pallescens ADOT Engineering District: Kingman Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus ADOT Maintenance: Wikieup Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii AGFD: Region III and Region IV ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott Speckled Rattlesnake Crotalus mitchellii

Swainson’s Hawk Buteo swainsoni AGFD: Region III BLM: Colorado River District Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Congressional District: 2 BLM: Colorado River District Threats: Council of Government: Western Arizona Council of Governments Highway (SR 95) Congressional District: 1and 2 Urbanization FHWA Engineering: A4 River Trail System Council of Government: Northern Arizona Council of Governments and Western Arizona Council of Governments Legislative District: 3 Hydrology: Standard Wash FHWA Engineering: A4 Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100% Legislative District: 3 and 4

Land Ownership: Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Bureau of Land Management 91% AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 95.5% Private Land 1% Great Basin Conifer Woodland 4% State Trust Land 8% Semidesert Grassland 0.5%

Identified Species: Land Ownership: American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum Bureau of Land Management 63% Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Private Land 37% Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus Identified Species: Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum Bobcat Lynx rufus Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater California Leaf-Nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Arizona Toad Bufo microscaphus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Bobcat Lynx rufus Fringed Myotis Myotis thysanodes California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Common Black-hawk Buteogallus anthracinus Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Photo by Ron Horloff Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Mohave Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii

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Tres Alamos Wilderness – Prescott National Forest Identified Species Identified Species (Linkage 33: continued) Apache Highlands Ecoregion (Linkage 34: continued) Desert Sucker Catostomus clarki Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Bobcat Lynx rufus Gambel’s Quail Callipepla gambelii California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer County: Yavapai Javelina Tayassu tajacu Common Black-hawk Buteogallus anthracinus

Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Longfin Dace Agosia chrysogaster ADOT Engineering District: Prescott and K ing man Fringed Myotis Myotis thysanodes Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis ADOT Maintenance: Prescott, Wic k enbur g a nd Wikieup Gambel’s Quail Callipepla gambelii Mohave Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Mountain Lion Felis concolor Javelina Tayassu tajacu Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus A:GFD Region III, Region IV and Region VI Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Longfin Dace Agosia chrysogaster Pallescens BLM: Colorado River District and Phoenix District Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis Ringtail Bassariscus astutus Congressional District: 1 Mohave Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Riparian Obligates Mountain Lion Felis concolor Roundtail Chub Gila robusta Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Council of Government: Northern Arizona Council of Southwestern Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii extimus Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Governments Speckled Dace Rhinichthys osculus pallescens

Speckled Rattlesnake Crotalus mitchellii Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Swainson’s Hawk Buteo swainsoni FHWA Engineering: A4 Pronghorn Antilocapra americana Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Ringtail Bassariscus astutus Yuma Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris yumanensis Legislative District: 1 and 4 Riparian Obligates Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo albonotatus Roundtail Chub Gila robusta Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Threats: AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 25% Sonora Sucker Catostomus insignis Highway (US 93) Interior Chaparral 53% Southwestern Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii extimus Urbanization M ohave Desertscrub 7% Speckled Rattlesnake Crotalus mitchellii Semidesert Grassland 15% Swainson’s Hawk Buteo swainsoni Hydrology: Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Big Sandy River Land Ownership: Western Small-footed Bat Myotis ciliolabrum Bitter Creek Bureau of Land Management 4% Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus Black Canyon Private Land 23% occidentalis Box Canyon Wash State Trust Land 73% Yuma Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris yumanensis Bronco Creek Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Burro Creek Identified Species: Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo albonotatus Gray Wash American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum Kaiser Spring Canyon Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Threats: Natural Corrals Wash Arizona Myotis Myotis occultus Highway (SR 97; SR 96; US 93) Placeritas Creek Arizona Night Lizard Xantusia arizonae Railroad Arizona Toad Bufo microscaphus Urbanization Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotis

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East – West Prescott National Forest Apache Highlands Ecoregion (Linkage 34: continued) (Linkage 34: Hydrology continued) Hydrology: Smith Canyon County: Yavapai Alkali Wash South Fork Date Creek Ally Wash South Fork Santa Maria River ADOT Engineering District: Prescott Antelope Creek Sycamore Creek ADOT Maintenance: Cordes Junction Arrastre Creek Tank Creek ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott Ash Creek Tonto Wash

Big Shipp Wash Valley Wash Black Canyon Wash Waterman Cr eek AGFD: Region II and Region III Blackwater Creek Weaver Creek Bland Creek Woosley Wash BLM: Phoenix District Blind Indian Creek Yarnell Creek Bridle Creek Congressional District: 1 Copper Basin Wash Cottonwood Canyon Council of Government: Central Yavapai Metropolitan planning Cottonwood Creek Organization and Northern Arizona Council of Governments Date Creek East Antelope Creek FHWA Engineering: A4 Eastwood Creek Finch Wash Legislative District: 1 and 4 Hassayampa River Iron Spring Wash Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Kirkland Creek Great Basin Conifer Woodland 31% Lawler Creek Interior Chaparral 10% Little Shipp Wash Petran Montane Conifer Forest 3% Little Sycamore Creek Plains & Great Basin Grassland 49% Loco Creek Semidesert Grassland 7% Logan Wash

Martinez Wash Land Ownership: Mescal Creek Milk Creek Bureau of Land Management 3% Miller Creek Private Land 67% Minnehaha Creek State Land Trust 30% Model Creek Moonville Creek Identified Species: North Fork Date Creek American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum Placeritas Creek American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla Poplar Wash Arizona Toad Bufo microscaphus Quail Spring Wash Photo by Bob Miller Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus Ritter Creek Desert Sucker Catostomus clarki Santa Maria River Elk Cervus elaphus Sheppard Wash Fringed Myotis Myotis thysanodes Skull Valley Wash Gambel’s Quail Callipepla gambelii

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Yeager Canyon – Camp Verde Apache Highlands Ecoregion

(Linkage 35: Identified Species continued) (Linkage 35: Hydrology continued) County: Yavapai Javelina Tayassu tajacu Miller Creek Longfin Dace Agosia chrysogaster Mint Wash ADOT Engineering District: Prescott and Flagstaff Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis Mud Tank Wash ADOT Maintenance: Cordes Junction, Little Antelope and Prescott Mountain Lion Felis concolor Spence Creek ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Strickland Wash

Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis Verde River AGFD: Region II and Region III Pronghorn Antilocapra americana Williamson Valley Wash Razorback Sucker Xyrauchen texanus Willow Creek Roundtail Chub Gila robusta Yarber Wash BLM: Phoenix District Sonora Sucker Catostomus insignis Congressional District: 1 Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus

Occidentalis Council of Government: Central Yavapai Metropolitan Planning Threats: Organization and Northern Arizona Council of Governments Highway (SR 69; SR 89; SR 89A) Urbanization FHWA Engineering: A2 and A4

Hydrology: Legislative District: 1 A gua Fria River Aspen creek Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Bannon Creek Great Basin Conifer Woodland 0.2% Big Bug Creek Interior Chaparral 18.7% Big Chino Wash Petran Montane Conifer Forest 6.7% Bottleneck Wash Plains & Great Basin Grassland 3.1% Brushy Wash Semidesert Grassland 71.3% Butte Creek Butte Wash Land Ownership: Chaparral Gulch Arroyo Private Land 65% Clipper Wash State Trust Land 6% Cooper Wash Tribal Land (Yavapai) 1% Coyote Spring USDA Forest Service (Coconino, Prescott) 28% Coyote Wash

Dillon Wash Identified Species: Granite Creek Arizona Myotis Myotis occultus Hackberry creek Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus Hitt Wash Common Black-hawk Buteogallus anthracinus Horse Wash Desert Sucker Catostomus clarki Little Chino Wash Elk Cervus elaphus Lynx Creek Fringed Myotis Myotis thysanodes Manzanita Creek Gambel’s Quail Callipepla gambelii Martin Canyon Gila Topminnow Poeciliopsis occidentalis occidentalis

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North - South Black Hills Apache Highlands Ecoregion

(Linkage 36: Identified Species continued) County: Yavapai (Linkage 37: Identified Species continued) Javelina Tayassu tajacu Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus Longfin Dace Agosia chrysogaster ADOT Engineering District: Prescott occidentalis Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis ADOT Maintenance: Cordes Junction Threats: Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott Highway (I 17) Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis Urbanization Northern Mexican Gartersnake Thamnophis eques megalops AGFD: Region III and Region VI Pronghorn Antilocapra americana Hydrology: Ringtail Bassariscus astutus BLM: Phoenix District Ash Creek Riparian Obligates Cienega Cr eek

Roundtail Chub Gila robusta Dry Creek Congressional District: 1 Sonora Sucker Catostomus insignis Osborne Spring Wash Southwestern Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii extimus Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus Council of Government: Northern Arizona Council of occidentalis Governments

Threats: FHWA Engineering: A4 Highway (SR 89A) Railroad Legislative District: 1 and 4 Urbanization Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Hydrology: Great Basin Conifer Woodland 21% Bitter Creek Semidesert Grassland 79% Blowout Creek Cherry Creek Land Ownership: Grandpa Wash Private Land 12% Grief Hill Wash State Trust Land 2% Martin Canyon USDA Forest Service (Prescott) 86% Oak Wash Verde River Identified Species: Walnut Creek Bobcat Lynx rufus Desert Sucker Catostomus clarki Elk Cervus elaphus Gambel’s Quail Callipepla gambelii Gila Topminnow Poeciliopsis occidentalis occidentalis Javelina Tayassu tajacu Longfin Dace Agosia chrysogaster Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis Mountain Lion Felis concolor

Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus

Pronghorn Antilocapra americana Speckled Dace Rhinichthys osculus

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Bradshaw Mountains – Agua Fria National SR 260 West from I-17 to SR 87 Monument Apache Highlands Ecoregion Arizona/New Mexico Mountains Ecoregion Apache Highlands Ecoregion (Linkage 38: continued) Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Threats: County: Coconino, Gila and Yavapai Highway (I 17) County: Yavapai Urbanization ADOT Engineering District: Prescott ADOT Maintenance: Cordes Junction and Payson ADOT Engineering District: Prescott Hydrology: ADOT Maintenance: Cordes Junction ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott Badger Spring Wash ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott Bumble Bee Creek AGFD: Region II, Region III and Region VI

AGFD: Region III and Region VI BLM: Gila District and Phoenix District

BLM: Phoenix District Congressional District: 1

Congressional District: 1 Council of Government: Central Arizona Council of Governments and Northern Arizona Council of Governments Council of Government: Northern Arizona Council of

Governments FHWA Engineering: A4

FHWA Engineering: A4 Legislative District: 1 and 5

Legislative District: 4 Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types):

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 5.5% Great Basin Conifer Woodland 25.6% AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 47% Interior Chaparral 25% Semidesert Grassland 53% Petran Montane Conifer F orest 23.7%

Semidesert Grassland 20.2% Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 100% Land Ownership:

Private Land 20% Identified Species: State Trust Land <1% Arizona Toad Bufo microscaphus USDA Forest Service (Coconino, Prescott, Tonto) 80% Bobcat Lynx rufus

Desert Sucker Catostomus clarki Identified Species: Gila Topminnow Poeciliopsis occidentalis occidentalis American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum Javelina Tayassu tajacu Arizona Toad Bufo microscaphus Longfin Dace Agosia chrysogaster Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis Black Bear Ursus americanus Mountain Lion Felis concolor Chiracahua Leopard Frog Rana chiricahuensis Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Common Black-hawk Buteogallus anthracinus Northern Mexican Gartersnake Thamnophis eques megalops Desert Sucker Catostomus clarki Pronghorn Antilocapra americana Elk Cervus elaphus

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Linkage 40

East – West Mogollon Plateau Arizona/New Mexico Mountains Ecoregion

(Linkage 39: Identified Species continued) County: Coconino (Linkage 40: Identified Species continued) Longfin Dace Agosia chrysogaster Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis ADOT Engineering District: Holbrook and Prescott Mountain Lion Felis concolor ADOT Maintenance: Payson and Winslow Threats: Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Flagstaff and Highway (SR 87) Mexican Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis lucida Prescott Recreation Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis Urbanization Northern Mexican Gartersnake Thamnophis eques megalops AGFD: Region II Pronghorn Antilocapra americana Hydrology: Roundtail C hub Gila robusta Clear Creek BLM: Phoenix District Sonora Sucker Catostomus insignis Clover Creek

Southwestern Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii extimus Jacks Canyon Congressional District: 1 Speckled Dace Rhinichthys osculus Pine Valley Road Spikedace Meda fulgida Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus Council of Government: Northern Arizona Council of occidentalis Governments

Threats: FHWA Engineering: A4 Highway (SR 260; SR 87) Urbanization Legislative District: 1

Hydrology: Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Beaver Creek Great Basin Conifer Woodland 14% Cherry Creek Petran Montane Conifer Forest 85% Corduroy Wash Plains & Great Basin Grassland 1% Fossil Creek Gaddis Wash Land Ownership: Horse Tank Wash Private Land 92% Pine Creek USDA Forest Service (Coconino) 8% Strawberry C reek Sycamore Creek Identified Species: Verde River American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum West Clear Creek Black Bear Ursus americanus Wickiup Creek Elk Cervus elaphus Little Colorado Spinedace Lepidomeda vittata Little Colorado Sucker Catostomus sp. 3 Mexican Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis lucida Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis Northern Leopard Frog Rana pipiens Pronghorn Antilocapra americana Speckled Dace Rhinichthys osculus

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SR 260 Payson – Heber Aripine – Cibecue Apache Highlands Ecoregion Arizona/New Mexico Mountains Ecoregion Arizona/New Mexico Mountains Ecoregion (Linkage 41: Identified Species continued) County: Navajo County: Coconino, Gila and Navajo Javelina Tayassu tajacu Long-eared Myotis Myotis evotis ADOT Engineering District: Globe ADOT Engineering District: Prescott Longfin Dace Agosia chrysogaster ADOT Maintenance: Show Low ADOT Maintenance: Payson Mexican Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis lucida ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Flagstaff Mountain Lion Felis concolor ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus AGFD: Region I Narrow-headed Gartersnake Thamnophis rufipunctatus AGFD: Region I and Region VI Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis Northern Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis BLM: Gila District BLM: Gila District and Phoenix District Speckled Dace Rhinichthys osculus Tassel-eared Squirrel Sciurus aberti Congressional District: 1 Congressional District: 1 White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo Council of Government: Northern Arizona Council of Council of Government: Central Arizona Council of Governments Governments and Northern Arizona Council of Governments Threats: Highway (SR 260) FHWA Engineering: A4 FHWA Engineering: A4 Urbanization Legislative District: 5 Legislative District: 1 and 5 Hydrology: Brookbank Canyon Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Canyon Creek Great Basin Conifer Woodland 66% Chevelon Canyon Great Basin Conifer Woodland 5% Petran Montane Conifer Forest 34% Interior Chaparral 19% Christopher Creek East Fork Canyon Creek Petran Montane Conifer Forest 76% Land Ownership: G reen Valley Creek

Horton Creek Private Land 15% Land Ownership: Houston Creek USDA Forest Service (Apache-Sitgreaves) 85% Private Land 8% Hunter Creek USDA Forest Service (Apache-Sitgreaves; Tonto) 92% Mule Creek Identified Species: Sharp Creek Black Bear Ursus americanus Identified Species: Spring creek Bobcat Lynx rufus Allen’s Big-eared Bat Idionycteris phyllotis Stewart Creek Elk Cervus elaphus American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum Tonto Creek Javelina Tayassu tajacu Arizona Myotis Myotis occultus Wildcat Canyon Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Arizona Toad Bufo microscaphus Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Tassel-eared Squirrel Sciurus aberti Black Bear Ursus americanus White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus Common Black-hawk Buteogallus anthracinus Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo Desert Sucker Catostomus clarki Elk Cervus elaphus Threats: Fringed Myotis Myotis thysanodes Grazing

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Parker Valley – Cactus Plain Sonoran Desert Ecoregion (Linkage 42: Threats continued) Highway (SR 260) County: La Paz (Linkage 43: Identified Species continued) Urbanization Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii ADOT Engineering District: Yuma Southwest Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii extimus Hydrology: ADOT Maintenance: Quartzsite Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Cottonwood Wash ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott Native Fishes

Day Wash Threats: Decker Wash AGFD: Region IV Pearce Wash Burros

Phoenix Park Wash Highway (SR 95) BLM: Colorado River District Stinson Wash Railroad Willow Wash Urbanization Congressional District: 7 Hydrology: Council of Government: Western Arizona Council of Governments Bouse Wash

FHWA Engineering: A3

Legislative District: 3 and 24

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100%

Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 18% Private Land 3% State Trust Land 15% Tribal Land (Colorado River Indian) 64%

Identified Species: Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotis Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Mojave Fringe-toed Lizard Uma scoparia Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii pallescens

Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus

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Cactus Plain – Plomosa Mountains La Posa Plain Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

County: La Paz (Linkage 44: Identified Species continued) County: La Paz Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis ADOT Engineering District: Yuma ADOT Engineering District: Yuma ADOT Maintenance: Quartzsite Threats: ADOT Maintenance: Quartzsite ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott Highway (SR 72) ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott Railroad AGFD: Region IV Urbanization AGFD: Region IV

Hydrology: BLM: Colorado River District BLM: Colorado River District Bouse Wash

Congressional District: 7 Congressional District: 7

Council of Government: Western Arizona Council of Governments Council of Government: Western Arizona Council of Governments

FHWA Engineering: A3 FHWA Engineering: A3

Legislative District: 3 Legislative District: 3

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100% Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100%

Land Ownership: Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 100% Bureau of Land Management 50% State Trust Land 50% Identified Species: Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Identified Species: Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotis Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotis Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotis californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus

Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Mojave Fringe-toed Lizard Uma scoparia Photo by Bill Perry Mojave Fringe-toed Lizard Uma scoparia Mountain Li on Felis concolor Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii pallescens pallescens Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Southwest Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii extimus

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Linkage 46

Buckskin Mountains – Harcuvar Mountains Sonoran Desert EcoRegion

(Linkage 45: continued) County: Identified Species Threats: La Paz (Linkage 46: continued) Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Border Security ADOT Engineering District: Kingman Highway (SR 95) Threats: Urbanization ADOT Maintenance: Wikieup ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott Border Security Hydro logy: Canal Roadway (Alamo Road) None identified AGFD: Region IV Urbanization

BLM: Colorado River District Hydrology:

Cunningham Wash Congressional District: 2 and 7

Council of Government: Western Arizona Council of Governments

FHWA Engineering: A4

Legislative District: 3

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 1% Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 99%

Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 99% State Trust Land 1%

Identified Species: Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctu m Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotis Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer

Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus

Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii pallescens Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii

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Linkage 48 Linkage 47 Ranegras Plain Dome Rock Mountains Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Sonoran Desert Ecoregion County: La Paz County: La Paz (Linkage 47: continued) Threats: ADOT Engineering District: Yuma ADOT Engineering District: Yuma Border Security ADOT Maintenance: Quartzsite ADOT Maintenance: Quartzsite Highway (I 10) ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott Urbanization ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix and

Prescott AGFD: Hydrology: Region IV

None identified AGFD: Region IV BLM: Colorado River District

BLM: Colorado River District Congressional District: 7

Congressional District: 7 Council of Government: Western Arizona C ounc il of Go vernmen ts

Council of Government: Western Arizona Council of Governments FHWA Engineering: A3

FHWA Engineering: A3 Legislative District: 3 and 24

Legislative District: 3 and 24 Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 34% Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 66% Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100% Land Ownership: Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 97% Bureau of Land Management 88% Private Land 3% State Trust Land 12% Identified Species: Identified Species: Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotis Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotis Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotis californicus California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Javelina Tayassu tajacu Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii M ountain Lion Felis concolor pallescens Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Photo by Dr. J. Scott Altenbach pallescens Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii

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Linkage 49

Granite Wash – Little Harquahala Mountains Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

(Linkage 48: Identified Species continued) County: La Paz (Linkage 49: Identified Species continued) Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus ADOT Engineering District: Prescott and Yuma Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Threats: ADOT Maintenance: Quartzsite and Wickenburg Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis

Border Security ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott Threats: Highway (I 10; US 60) Urbanization Highway (SR 72; US 60) AGFD: Region IV Railroad

Hydrology: Urbanization BLM: Colorado River District Italian Wash

Poormans Wash Hydrology: Congressional District: 7 None Identified

Council of Government: Western Arizona Council of Governments

FHWA Engineering: A3 and A4

Legislative District: 3 and 24

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 45% Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 55%

Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 72% Private Land 20% State Trust Land 8%

Identified Species: Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater

Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia

Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Photo by Bill & Shirley Freeman Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Mountain Lion Felis concolor

Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii

pallescens

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Linkage 50 Linkage 51

Harcuvar Mountains – Harquahala Mountains Wickenburg Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

County: La Paz, Maricopa and Yavapai (Linkage 50: Identified Species continued) County: Maricopa and Yavapai Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii ADOT Engineering District: Prescott Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis ADOT Engineering District: Prescott ADOT Maintenance: Wickenburg ADOT Maintenance: Wickenburg Threats: ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix and Highway (US 60) Prescott AGFD: Region IV Railroad Urbanization AGFD: Region IV and Region VI BLM: Colorado River District and Phoenix District Hydrology: BLM: Phoenix District Centennial Wash Congressional District: 1, 2 and 7

Congressional District: 1 and 2 Council of Government: Maricopa Association of Governments, Northern Arizona Council of Governments and Western Arizona Council of Government: Maricopa Association of Governments Council of Governments and Northern Arizona Council of Governments

FHWA Engineering: A4 FHWA Engineering: A4

Legislative District: 3, 4 and 24 Legislative District: 4

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 5% AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 94.5% Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 95% Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 5% Semidesert Grassland 0.5% Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 17% Land Ownership: Private Land 19% Bureau of Land Management 4% State Trust Land 64% Private Land 38% State Trust Land 58% Identified Species: Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Identified Species: Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotis Arizona Skink Eumeces gilberti arizonensis California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Arizona Toad Bufo microscaphus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis Bobcat Lynx rufus Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Bonytail Gila elegans pallescens California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer

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Linkage 52

Hassayampa River – Re d Pic a cho Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

(Linkage 51: Identified Species continued) (Linkage 51: Hydrology continued) County: Maricopa and Yavapai Common Black-hawk Buteogallus anthracinus Mill Wash Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Mockingbird Wash ADOT Engineering District: Prescott Desert Pupfish Cyprinodon macularius Monarch Wash ADOT Maintenance: Wickenburg Gila Topminnow Poeciliopsis occidentalis occidentalis Ox Wash ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix and Javelina Tayassu tajacu San Domingo Wash Prescott Longfin Dace Agosia chrysogaster Sols Wash

Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Star Wash AGFD: Region VI Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis Syndicate Wash Mountain Lion Felis concolor Trilby Wash Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Turtleback Wash BLM: Phoenix District Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii pallescens Congressional District: 1 and 2 Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Snowy Egret Egretta thula Council of Government: Maricopa Association of Governments Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii and Northern Arizona Council of Governments Southwestern Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii extimus Razorback Sucker Xyrauchen texanus FHWA Engineering: A4 Western Red Bat Lasiurus blossevillii Western Yellow Bat Lasiurus xanthinus Legislative District: 4 Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus occidentalis Biotic Communitie s (Vegetation Types): Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 100%

Threats: Land Ownership: Highway (SR 89; US 60; US 93) Private Land 4% Railroad State Trust Land 96% Urbanization Identified Species: Hydrology: Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Antelope Creek Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Blue Tank Wash Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus Box Wash Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Calamity Wash California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Cemetery Wash Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Daggs Wash Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Flying E Wash Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Hartman Wash Mountain Lion Felis concolor Hassayampa River Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Jimmie Wash Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Photo by Bill Horn Little San Domingo Wash pallescens

Martinez Wash Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus

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Linkage 53

North – South Mazatzal Mountains Apache Highlands Ecoregion

(Linkage 52: Identified Species continued) County: Gila and Maricopa (Linkage 53: Identified Species continued) Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Western Yellow Bat Lasiurus xanthinus ADOT Engineering District: Phoenix Maintenance and Prescott pallescens Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus ADOT Maintenance: Mesa and Payson Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus occidentalis ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Yuma Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris yumanensis Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis

Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis AGFD: Region VI Threats:

Threats: Highway (SR 87) BLM: Gila District and Phoenix District Border Security Urbanization

Highway (Constellation Road) Urbanization Congressional District: 1 and 5 Hydrology: Corral Creek Hydrology: Council of Government: Central Arizona Council of Governments Cottonwood Creek Blue Ta nk Wash and Maricopa Association of Governments East Fork Sycamore Creek Calamity Wash Gold Creek Hamlin Wash FHWA Engineering: A1 and A4 Slate Creek Mockingbird Wash Sycamore Creek Legislative District: 5 and 23 West Fork Sycamore Creek

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Interior Chaparral 76% Semidesert Grassland 24%

Land Ownership: Private Land 4% USDA Forest Service (Tonto) 96%

Identified Species: Banded Gila Monster Heloderma sus p ectum cinctu m Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Black Bear Ursus americanus Bobcat Lynx rufus California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Gila Topminnow Poeciliopsis occidentalis occidentalis

Longfin Dace Agosia chrysogaster Photo by James Gallagher Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis

Mountain Lion Felis concolor

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Sierra Ancha – Superstition Mountains East – West Sierra Ancha SR 288 Apache Highlands Ecoregion Apache Highlands Ecoregion Sonoran Desert Ecoregion (Linkage 54: Identified Species continued) Arizona/New Mexico Mountains Ecoregion Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis Sonoran Desert Ecoregion County: Gila and Maricopa Mountain Lion Felis concolor Northern Gray Hawk Asturina nitida maxima County: Gila and Coconino ADOT Engineering District: Globe Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus ADOT Maintenance: Globe and Roosevelt Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii ADOT Engineering District: Globe and Prescott ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix Southwestern Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii extimus ADOT Maintenance: Payson and Roosevelt Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix occidentalis AGFD: Region VI White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus AGFD: Region I and Region VI

BLM: Gila District and Phoenix District Threats: BLM: Gila District and Phoenix District Highway (SR 188) Congressional District: 1 and 5 Urbanization Congressional District: 1 Council of Government: Central Arizona council of Governments Hydrology: and Maricopa Association of Governments Blevens Wash Council of Government: Central Arizona Council of Governments Bumblebee Creek and Northern Arizona Council of Governments FHWA Engineering: A4 Campaign Creek Devore Wash FHWA Engineering: A4 Legislative District: 5 and 23 Eads Wash Hicks Wash Legislative District: 1 and 5 Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Horseshoe Bend Wash AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 85% H-Z Wash Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Interior Chaparral 15% Murray Wash AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 22% Pinal Creek Great Basin Conifer Woodland 17% Land Ownership: Pinto Creek Interior Chaparral 12% National Park Service (Tonto Nation al Monu m ent) 2% Poison Springs Wash Madrean Evergreen Woodland < 0.5% Private Land 1% Quail Springs Wash Petran Montane Conifer Forest 33% USDA Forest Service (Tonto) 97% Rock Creek Semidesert Grassland 16% Salt River Identified Species: Schoolhouse Wash Land Ownership: Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus Spring Creek Private Land 10% Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Tonto Creek USDA Forest Service (Apache-Sitgreaves, Tonto) 90% Black Bear Ursus americanus Wildcat Creek Bobcat Lynx rufus Identified Species: California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus A merican Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Arizona Myotis Myotis occultus Common Black-hawk Buteogallus anthracinus Arizona Toad Bufo microscaphus Gila Topminnow Poeciliopsis occidentalis occidentalis Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus Javelina Tayassu tajacu Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Longfin Dace Agosia chrysogaster Black Bear Ursus americanus

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Linkage 56

Sevenmile – Sevenmile East US 60 Apache Highlands Ecoregion (Linkage 55: Identified Species continued) (Linkage 55: Hydrology continued) Bobcat Lynx rufus Meddler Wash County: Gila and Navajo Cave Myotis Myotis velifer North Fork Parker Creek Chiracahua Leopard Frog Rana chiricahuensis P. B. Creek ADOT Engineering District: Globe Common Black-hawk Buteogallus anthracinus Parker Creek ADOT Maintenance: Globe, Indian Pine and Show Low Elk Cervus elaphus Pinal Creek ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Flagstaff and Fringed Myotis Myotis thysanodes Pocket Creek Phoenix Gila T opminnow Poeciliopsis occidentalis occidentalis Reynolds Creek

Javelina Tayassu tajacu Rose Creek AGFD: Region I and Region VI Longfin Dace Agosia chrysogaster Salt River Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Shute Springs Creek Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis South Fork Parker Creek BLM: Gila District and Phoenix District Mexican Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis lucida Turkey Creek Mountain Lion Felis concolor Walnut Creek Congressional District: 1 Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis Warm Creek Northern Gray Hawk Asturina nitida maxima Workman Creek Council of Government: Central Arizona Council of Governments Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii and Northern Arizona Council of Governments pallescens Roundtail Chub Gila robusta FHWA Engineering: A4 Southwestern Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii extimus Western Red Bat Lasiurus blossevillii Legislative District: 5 Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus occidentalis Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 0.2% Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Great Basin Conifer Woodland 51.6% Interior Chaparral 30.7% Threats: Petran Montane Conifer Forest 17% Grazing Semidesert Grassland 0.5% Highway (SR 288) Urbanization Land Ownership: Private Land 4% Hydrology: Tribal Land (San Carlos; White Mountain Apache) 62% Ash Creek USDA Forest Service (Tonto) 34% Cherry Creek Connor Wash Identified Species: Dinner Creek American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum Eads Wash Arizona Toad Bufo microscaphus Griffin Wash Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus Haigler Creek Black Bear Ursus americanus Honey Creek Cave Myotis Myotis velifer H-Z Wash Chiracahua Leopard Frog Rana chiricahuensis McFadden Creek Common Black-hawk Buteogallus anthracinus Elk Cervus elaphus

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Linkage 57

Faught Ridge - Baldy SR 73 Apache Highlands Ecoregion Arizona/New Mexico Mountains Ecoregion (Linkage 56: Identified Species continued) Gila Topminnow Poeciliopsis occidentalis occidentalis County: Navajo (Linkage 57: continued) Javelina Tayassu tajacu Threats: Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis ADOT Engineering District: Globe Highway (SR 73) Mexican Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis lucida ADOT Maintenance: Indian Pine Urbanization Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Flagstaff Mountain Lion Felis concolor Hydrology:

Narrow-headed Gartersnake Thamnophis rufipunctatus Bull Creek AGFD: Region I Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Corduroy Creek

pallescens Cottonwood Wash Roundtail Chub Gila robusta BLM: Gila District Diamond Creek White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus North Fork White River Congressional District: 1 Threats: Highway (US 60) Council of Government: Northern Arizona Council of Governments Hydrology: Ash Creek FHWA Engineering: A4 Cammerman Wash Carrizo Creek Legislative District: 5 Champion Creek Cienega Creek Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Corduroy Creek Great Basin Conifer Woodland 13% Corral Creek Petran Montane Conifer Forest 87% Forestdale Creek Ramboz Wash Land Ownership: Salt River Tribal Land (White Mountain Apache) 100% Sevenmile Wash Identified Species: Elk Cervus elaphus Gray Wolf Canis lupus Javelina Tayassu tajacu Mearns’ Quail Crytonyx montezumae Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Narrow-headed Gartersnake Thamnophis rufipunctatus Osprey Pandion haliaetus Roundtail Chub Gila robusta

Tassel-eared Squirrel Sciurus aberti White-nosed Coati Nasua narica

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Linkage 58 Linkage 59

State Route 260 East Correjo Crossing – Clifton US 191 Apache Highlands Ecoregion Apache Highlands Ecoregion Arizona/New Mexico Mountains Ecoregion Arizona/New Mexico Mountains Ecoregion (Linkage 58: Identified Species continued) Sky Island Ecoregion County: Apache and Navajo Pronghorn Antilocapra americana Riparian Obligates County: Apache, Graham and Greenlee ADOT Engineering District: Globe Tassel-eared Squirrel Sciurus aberti ADOT Maintenance: Indian Pine and Springerville White Mountains Ground Squirrel Spermophilus ADOT Engineering District: Globe and Safford ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Flagstaff tridecemlineatus monticola ADOT Maintenance: Safford, Springerville and Three Way White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Flagstaff and Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo AGFD: Region I Tucson

Threats: BLM: Gila District AGFD: Region I, Region V and Region VI Highway (SR 260; SR 273; SR 373)

Railroad BLM: Gila District Congressional District: 1 Urbanization

Council of Government: Northern Arizona Counc il o f Hydro lo gy: Congressional District: 1 Govern ments Bar H Creek Black Bear Cienega Creek Council of Government: Northern Arizona Council of FHWA Engineering: A4 Bog Creek Governments and South Eastern Arizona Governments Organization Corduroy Creek Legislative District: 5 Fish Creek FHWA Engineering: A4 Gomez Creek Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Gooseberry Creek Legislative District: 5 Petran Montane Conifer Forest 85% Horseshoe Creek Subalpine Grassland 15% Little Bog Creek Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): McNary Ditch AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 3% Land Ownership: North Fork White River Chihuahuan Desertscrub 3% Private Land 1% Paradise Creek Great Basin Conifer Woodland 11% Tribal Land (White Mountain Apache) 81% Soldier Creek Interior Chaparral 3% USDA Forest Service (Apache-Sitgreaves) 18% Madrean Evergreen Woodland 4% Petran Montane Conifer Forest 45% Identified Species: Petran Subalpine Conifer Forest < 0.5% Apache (Arizona) Trout Oncorhynchus apache Plains & Great Basin Grassland 8% Black Bear Ursus americana Semidesert Grassland 23% Chiracahua Leopard Frog Rana chiricahuensis Elk Cervus elaphus Land Ownership: Gray Wolf Canis lupus Bureau of Land Management 4% Gunnison’s Prairie Dog Cynomys gunnisoni Private Land 34% Mountain Lio n Felis concolor State Trust Land 5% Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus USDA Forest Service (Apache-Sitgreaves) 57% Narrow-headed Gartersnake Thamnophis rufipunctatus Northern Leopard Frog Rana pipiens Identified Species: Osprey Pandion haliaetus Allen’s Big-eared Bat Idionycteris phyllotis

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(Linkage 59: Identified Species continued) (Linkage 59: continued) (Linkage 59: Hydrology continued) American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum Hydrology: Thomas Creek Apache (Arizona) Trout Oncorhynchus apache Auger Creek Turkey Creek Arizona Myotis Myotis occultus Beaver Creek Watts Creek Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Campbell Blue Creek Whitewater Creek Black Bear Ursus americanus Castle Creek Chiracahua Leopard Frog Rana chiricahuensis Chase Creek Common Black-hawk Buteogallus anthracinus Cienega Creek Desert Sucker Catostomus clarki Coleman Creek Elk Cervus elaphus Colter Creek Gila Trout Oncorhynchus gilae Corduroy Creek Gray Wolf Canis lupus Davis Creek Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Eagle Creek Little Colorado Spinedace Lepidomeda vittata East Eagle Creek Little Colorado Sucker Catostomus sp. 3 Fish Creek Loach Minnow Tiaroga cobitis Foote Creek Longfin Dace Agosia chrysogaster Gila River Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Grant Creek Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis Hannagan Creek Mexican Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis lucida Hulsey Creek Mountain Lion Felis concolor Juan Miller Creek Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus K. P. Creek Narrow Headed Gartersnake Thamnophis rufipunctatus Limestone Gulch Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis Milk Creek N orthern Leopard Frog Rana pipiens North Corral Creek Pronghorn Antilocapra americana North Fork Black Wallow Creek Sonora Sucker Catostomus insignis Nutrioso Creek S outhwestern Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii extimus Paddy Creek

Speckled Dace Rhinichthys osculus Picnic Creek Tassel-eared Squirrel Sciurus aberti Pigeon Creek White-nosed Coati Nasua narica Pipestem Creek White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus Raspberry creek Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo Riggs Creek Right Fork Foote Creek Rousensock Creek Threats: Rudd Creek Grazing Salt House Creek Highway (US 191) San Francisco River Mining Sardine Creek Railroad Sheep Wash Urbanization Silver Basin Creek Squaw Creek Stray Horse Creek

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Linkage 60 Linkage 61 Linkage 62 Black Hills – Tollgate Canyon Black Hills – Peloncillo Mountains State Route 75 Sky Island Ecoregion Sky Island Ecoregion Apache Highlands Ecoregion

County: Graham and Greenlee County: Graham and Greenlee County: Greenlee

ADOT Engineering District: Safford ADOT Engineering District: Safford ADOT Engineering District: Safford ADOT Maintenance: Safford and Three Way ADOT Maintenance: Safford and Three Way ADOT Maintenance: Three Way ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson

AGFD: Region V AGFD: Region V AGFD: Region V

BLM: Gila District BLM: Gila District BLM: Gila District

Congressional District: 1 Congressional District: 1 Congressional District: 1

Council of Government: South Eastern Arizona Governments Council of Government: South Eastern Arizona Governments Council of Government: South Eastern Arizona Governments Organization Organization Organization

FHWA Engineering: A2 FHWA Engineering: A2 FHWA Engineering: A2

Legislative District: 5 Legislative District: 5 Legislative District: 5

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 5% Semidesert Grassland 100% Chihuahuan Desertscrub 59% Semidesert Grassland 95% Madrean Evergreen Woodland 9% Land Ownership: Semidesert Grassland 32% Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 60% Bureau of Land Management 98% Private Land 15.5% Land Ownership: Private Land 2% State Trust Land 24.5% Bureau of Land Management 2% Private Land 19% Identified Species: Identified Species: State Trust Land 79% Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Javelina Tayassu tajacu Javelina Tayassu tajacu Identified Species: Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Black Bear Ursus americana Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Common Black-hawk Buteogallus anthracinus Threats: Javelina Tayassu tajacu Threats: Highway (US 70) Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Highway (US 191) Urbanization Small Mammals Urbanization Hydrology: Threats: Hydrology: Shoat Tank Wash Highway (SR 75) Tollgate Wash Slick Rock Wash Railroad Urbanization

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Linkage 63

Trigo Mountains – Kofa Mountains Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

(Linkage 62: continued) County: La Paz and Yuma (Linkage 63: Identified Species continued) Hydro logy: Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Apache Creek ADOT Engineering District: Yuma Bitter Creek ADOT Maintenance: Quartzsite Threats: Cottonwood Creek ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix Border Security Dromedary Creek Highway (US 95) Gila River Urbanization AGFD: Region IV Greaser Wash Harris Wash Hydrology: BLM: Colorado River District Kaywood Wash French Creek

Linden Creek Indian Wash Little Sa nd Wash Congressional District: 7 Tyson Wash Lop Ear Creek Sand Wash Council of Government: Western Arizona Council of Governments Sanders Wash and Yuma Metropolitan Planning Organization Sandia Wash

Skully Creek FHWA Engineering: A3 Stove Wash Wampoo Wash Legislative District: 24 Waters Wash Willow Creek Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types):

Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100%

Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 92% Department of Defense (Yuma Test Range) 2.5% National Wildlife Refuge (Kofa) 3.5% Private Land 2%

Identified Species: Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Mountain Li on Felis concolor Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii

pallescens Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus

Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii

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Linkage 64 Linkage 65

Bighorn Belmont – Saddle Mountain White Tanks – Hassayampa River Sonoran Desert EcoRegion Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

County: Maricopa (Linkag e 64: Identified Species continued) County: Maricopa Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis ADOT Engineering District: Yuma ADOT Engineering District: Phoenix Maintenance and Yuma ADOT Maintenance: Gila Bend Threats: ADOT Maintenance: Avondale and Gila Bend ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott Border Security ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix and Central Arizona Project Canal Prescott AGFD: Region IV Highway (I 10) Urbanization AGFD: Region VI BLM: Phoenix District Hydrology: BLM: Phoenix District Delaney Wash Congressional District: 2 and 7 Old Camp Wash Congressional District: 2 Council of Government: Maricopa Association of Governments Council of Government: Maricopa Association of Governments FHWA Engineering: A3 FHWA Engineering: A3 Legislative District: 25 Legislative District: 4 Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100% Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 11% Land Ownership: Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 89% Bureau of Land Management 1% Private Land 72% Land Ownership: State Trust Land 27% Private Land 81% State Trust Land 19% Identified Species: Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Identified Species: Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus Bobcat Lynx rufus Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Javelina Tayassu tajacu Bobcat Lynx rufus Photo by Doug Duncan Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Mountain Lion Felis concolor Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Threats: Mountain Lion Felis concolor Border Security Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Highway Threat (Sun Valley Parkway) pallescens Urbanization Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii

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Linkage 66

Superior - Miami US 60

Apache Highlands Ecoregion (Linkage 65: continued) Hydrology: Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Identified Species (Linkage 66: continued) Hassayampa River Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus County: Gila and Pinal Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis

Javelina Tayassu tajacu ADOT Engineering District: Globe Maricopa Leaf-nosed Snake Phyllorhynchus browni lucidus ADOT Maintenance: Globe and Superior Mexican Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis lucida ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus AGFD: Region 5 and Region 6 Northern Mexican Gartersnake Thamnophis eques megalops Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus BLM: Gila District and Phoenix District Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Tucson Shovel-nosed Snake Chionactis occipitalis klauberi Congressional District: 1 Western Red Bat Lasiurus blossevillii Western Small-footed Myotis Myotis ciliolabrum Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus Council of Government: Central Arizona Council of Governments occidentalis

White-nosed Coati Nasua narica FHWA Engineering: A4 Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis

Legislative District: 5 and 23 Threats: Highway (US 60) Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Mining AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 45% Railroad Interior Chaparral 37% Urbanization Madrean Evergreen Woodland 10% Semidesert Grassland 8% Hydrology: Photo by Eric Vondy Arnett Creek Land Ownership: Bloody Tanks Wash Bureau of Land Management 2% Pinto Creek Private Land 36.5% Queen Creek State Trust Land 12.5% Reymert Wash USDA Forest Service 49% Russell Gulch

Identified Species: Black Bear Ursus americanus Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-owl Glaucidium brasilianum cactorum Common Black-hawk Buteogallus anthracinus Desert Pupfish Cyprinodon macularius Gila Topminnow Poeciliopsis occidentalis occidentalis

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Linkage 67 Linkage 68

Gila River - El Capitan Saddle Mountain - Gila Bend Mountains Sky Island Ecoregion Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Sonoran Desert Ecoregion County: Maricopa County: Gila and Pinal (Linkage 67: Identified Species continued) Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus ADOT Engineering District: Yuma ADOT Engineering District: Globe Northern Gray Hawk Asturina nitida maxima ADOT Maintenance: Gila Bend ADOT Maintenance: Globe and Superior Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix pallescens ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix and Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Tucson AGFD: Region 4 Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii

Sonora Sucker Catostomus insignis AGFD: Region 5 and Region 6 Southwestern Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii extimus BLM: Phoenix District Spikedace Meda fulgida BLM: Gila District Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus Congressional District: 7 occidentalis Congressional District: 1 Council of Government: Maricopa Association of Governments Threats: Council of Government: Central Arizona Council of Governments De-watering of rivers FHWA Engineering: A3 Highway (SR 77) FHWA Engineering: A4 Mining Legislative District: 25 Railroad Legislative District: 5 and 23 Urbanization Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types):

Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100% Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Hydrology: AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 99.8% Ash Creek Land Ownership: Semidesert Grassland 0.2% Gila River Bureau of Land Management 14% Hackberry Wash Private Land 75% Land Ownership: Indian Camp Wash State Trust Land 11% Bureau of Land Management 20% Romero Wash Bureau of Reclamation 1% San Pedro River Identified Species: Private Land 68% Smith Wash Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater State Trust Land 11% Steamboat Wash Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus Identified Species: Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus Bobcat Lynx rufus California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-owl Glaucidium brasilianum Cave Myotis Myotis velifer cactorum Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Common Black-hawk Buteogallus anthracinus LeConte’s Thrasher Toxostoma lecontei Desert Sucker Catostomus clarki Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Loach Minnow Tiaroga cobitis Mountain Lion Felis concolor Longfin Dace Agosia chrysogaster Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Mississippi Kite Ictinia mississippiensis pallescens Mountain Lion Felis concolor Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus

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Linkage 69

Laguna Mountains – Muggins Mountains Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

(Linkage 68: Identified Species continued) County: Yuma Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii (Linkage 69: Identified Species continued) Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis ADOT Engineering District: Yuma Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii ADOT Maintenance: Yuma pallescens Threats: ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Pronghorn Antilocapra americana Agriculture Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Border Security AGFD: Region 4 Highway (Agua Caliente) Spotted Bat Euderma maculatum

Railroad Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea BLM: Colorado River District Urbanization Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus Occidentalis Hydrology: Congressional District: 7 Yuma Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris yumanensis Centennial Wash Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Council of Government: Yuma Metropolitan Planning Organization Threats: Border Security FHWA Engineering: A3 Canal Highway (US 95) Legislative District: 24 Railroad Urbanization Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Lower Colorado River Desertscrub 100% Hydrology: Castle Dome Wash Land Ownership: Dome Canal Bureau of Land Management 26% Dome Protective Channel Department of Defense (Yuma Test Range) 24% Gila Gravity Main Canal Bureau of Reclamation 4% Gila River Private Land 34% Wellton Mohawk Canal State Trust Land 12%

Identified Species: Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus

Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis

Photo by Fred Labounty California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus ca liforni cus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer

Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Mountain Lion Felis concolor

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Linkage 70 Linkage 71

Arizona Service Highway (ASH) North - South Gila Mountains Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

County: Yuma (Linkage 70: Identified Species continued) County: Yuma Yuma Hispid Cotton Rat Sigmodon hispidus eremicus ADOT Engineering District: Yuma Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis ADOT Engineering District: Yuma ADOT Maintenance: Yuma Yuman Desert Fringe-toed Lizard Uma notata rufopunctata ADOT Maintenance: Yuma

ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix Threats:

Canal AGFD: Region IV AGFD: Region IV Highway (SR 195)

Railroad BLM: Colorado River District BLM: Colorado River District Urbanization

Congressional District: 7 Hydrology: Congressional District: 7 A Canal Council of Government: Yuma Metropolitan Planning B Canal Council of Government: Yuma Metropolitan Planning Organization E Main Canal Organization Main Drain FHWA Engineering: A3 South Drain FHWA Engineering: A3 South Gila Valley Main Canal Legislative District: 24 W Main Canal Legislative District: 24

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100% Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100%

Land Ownership: Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 14% Bureau of Land Management 92% Department of Defense Private Land 2% (Barry Goldwater Air Force Range) 26% State Trust Land 6% Bureau of Reclamation 20% Private Land 28% Identified Species: State Trust Land 12% Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Identified Species: Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Flat-tailed Horned Lizard Phrynosoma mcallii Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Mountain Lion Felis concolor pallescens Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus pallescens Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus

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Linkage 72

Sentinel Plain Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

(Linkage 71: Identified Species continued) County: Maricopa and Yuma (Linkage 72: Identified Species continued) Pronghorn Antilocapra americana Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Spotted Bat Euderma maculatum ADOT Engineering District: Yuma Mountain Lion Felis concolor Yuma Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris yumanensis ADOT Maintenance: Gila Bend and Yuma Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis pallescens ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix Yuman Desert Fringe-toed Lizard Uma notata rufopunctata Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus

Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Threats: AGFD: Region IV Sonoran Pronghorn Antilocapra americana sonoriensis

Border Security Southwestern Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii extimus Highway (I 8) BLM: Colorado River District and Phoenix District Snowy Egret Egretta thula Railroad Spotted Bat Euderma maculatum Urbanization Congressional District: 7 Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus Hydrology: Council of Government: Maricopa Association of Governments occidentalis None Identified and Yuma Metropolitan Planning Organization White-faced Ibis Plegadis chihi Yuma Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris yumanensis FHWA Engineering: A3 Yuman Desert Fringe-toed Lizard Uma notata rufopunctata

Legislative District: 24 and 25 Threats: Border Security Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Canal Highway (I 8) Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100% Railroad

Land Ownership: Urbanization

Bureau of Land Management 13% Hydrology: Bureau of Reclamation 2% Baragan Wash Department of Defense Clanton Wash (Barry Goldwater Air Force Range) 2% Columbus Wash Private Land 46% Copper Wash State Trust Land 37% Deadman Wash

Identified Species: Farmers Canal Gila River Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Gravel Wash Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Hoodoo Wash Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus Mohawk Canal Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Nottbusch Wash California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Owl Wash Cave Myotis Myotis velifer San Cristobal Wash Flat-tailed Horned Lizard Phrynosoma mcallii Sentinel Wash Great Egret Ardea alba Tenmile Wash Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Texas Hill Canal Least Bittern Ixobrychus exilis

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Linkage 73

Gila Bend Mountains - North Maricopa Mountains

Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Hydrology Identified Species (Linkage 72: continued) (Linkage 73: continued) The Lagoon Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus County: Wellton Mohawk Main Channel Maricopa Pale Townsend's Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Yaqui Wash pallescens ADOT Enginee ring District: Yuma Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus ADOT Maintenance: Gila Bend Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix Yuma Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris yumanensis Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis AGFD: Region IV and Region VI Threats: BLM: Phoenix District Border Security Canal Congressional District: 7 Highway (SR 85) Urbanization Council of Government: Maricopa Association of Governments Hydrology: FHWA Engineering: A3 Arlington Canal Enterprise Canal

Gila River Legislative District: 25 Rainbow Wash

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 0.3% Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 99.7%

Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 1% Private Land 76% State Trust Land 23%

Identified Species: Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis

California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Javelina Tayassu tajacu Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Mountain Lion Felis concolor

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Linkage 74 Linkage 75

North Maricopa Mountains – Sierra Estrella State Route 85 Mountains Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

Sonoran Desert Ecoregion County: Maricopa and Pima (Linkage 74: Identified Species continued) County: Maricopa Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus ADOT Engineering District: Tucson and Yuma Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii ADOT Engineering District: Phoenix Maintenance, Tucson and ADOT Maintenance: Gila Bend and Three Points pallescens ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix and Yuma Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Tucson ADOT Maintenance: Avondale, Casa Grande and Gila Bend Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii

ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis AGFD: Region IV and Region V

AGFD: Region IV and Region VI Threats: BLM: Phoenix District Agriculture

BLM: Phoenix District Border Security Congressional District: Highway (Rainbow Valley) 7

Congressional District: 2 and 7 Urbanization Council of Government: Maricopa Association of Governments and Pima Association of Governments Council of Government: Maricopa Association of Governments Hydrology:

Waterman Wash FHWA Engineering: A2 and A3 FHWA Engineering: A2 and A3 West Prong Waterman Wash

Legislative District: 25 Legislative District: 12 and 25

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 38% Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100% Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 62%

Land Ownership: Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 3% Bureau of Land Management 21% Private Land 56% Department of Defense State Trust Land 41% (Barry Goldwater Air Force Range) 33% National Park Service (Organ Pipe) 32% Identif ied Species: Private Land 13% Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater State Trust Land 1% Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus Identified Species: Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Ajo Mountain Whipsnake Masticophis bilineatus lineolatus Bobcat Lynx rufus Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotis Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis

Javelina Tayassu tajacu Bobcat Lynx rufus

Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-owl Glaucidium brasilianum

Mountain Lion Felis concolor cactorum

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Linkage 76

South Maricopa Mountains– Sand Tanks Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

(Linkage 75: Identified Species continued) (Linkage 75: Hydrology continued) County: Maricopa California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Midway Wash Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Rio Cornez ADOT Engineering District: Yuma Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Tenmile Wash ADOT Maintenance: Gila Bend Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus

Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad Gastrophryne olivacea Javelina Tayassu tajacu AGFD: Region IV Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae BLM: Phoenix District Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Maricopa Leaf-nosed Snake Phyllorhynchus browni lucidus Congressional District: 7 Mexican Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata trivirgata Mountain Lion Felis concolor Council of Government: Maricopa Association of Governments Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Organ Pipe Shovel-nosed Snake Chionactis palarostris FHWA Engineering: A3 organica Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Legislative District: 25 pallescens Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Red-back Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti xanthonota Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 71% Sonoran Pronghorn Antilocapra americana sonoriensis Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 29% Tiger Rattlesnake Crotalus tigris Underwood’s Bonneted Bat Eumops underwoodi Land Ownership: Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Bureau of Land Management 100% Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Identified Species: Threats: Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Agriculture Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Border Security Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotis Highway (SR 85) Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Urbanization Bobcat Lynx rufus Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-owl Glaucidium brasilianum Hydrology: cactorum

Alamo Wash California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus

Cherioni Wash Cave Myotis Myotis velifer

Cuerda de Lena Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus

Darby Arroyo Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad Gastrophryne olivacea

Gibson Arroyo Javelina Tayassu tajacu

Gunsight Wash Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis

Kuakatch Wash Lesser Long-Nosed Bat Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans

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Linkage 77

Quijotoa Valley Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

(Linkage 76: Identified Species continued) County: Pima Mountain Lion Felis concolor (Linkage 77: Identified Species continued) Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus ADOT Engineering District: Tucson Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii ADOT Maintenance: Three Points Mountain Lion Felis concolor pallescens ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Pale Townsend's Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii

Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii pallescens AGFD: Region V Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Threats: BLM: Phoenix District Sonoran Pronghorn Antilocapra Americana Agriculture Tiger Rattlesnake Crotalus tigris Border Security Congressional District: 7 Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Highway (I 8) Urbanization Council of Government: Pima Association of Governments Threats: Border Security Hydrology: FHWA Engineering: A2 Highway (SR 86) Bender Wash Urbanization Legislative District: 25 Hydrology: Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Gunsight Wash AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 18% Hickiwan Wash Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 82% San Simon Wash Sikort Chuapo Wash Land Ownership: Private Land 1% Tribal Land (Tohono O’odham) 99%

Identified Species: Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Arizona Mud Turtle Kinosternon arizonense Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotis Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Bobcat Lynx rufus Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-owl Glaucidium brasilianum cactorum California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad Gastrophryne olivacea Javelina Tayassu tajacu Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis

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Linkage 78 Linkage 79

State Route 79 Ironwood – Tortolita Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

County: Pinal (Linkage 78: Threats continued) County: Pima and Pinal Highway (SR 79) ADOT Engineering District: Tucson Urbanization ADOT Engineering District: Tucson ADOT Maintenance: Oracle ADOT Maintenance: Oracle, Three Points and Tucson North ADOT Natural Resources Management S e ction: T ucso n Hydrology: ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson Tom Mix Wash AGFD: Region V AGFD: Region V

BLM: Gila District BLM: Gila District

Congressional District: 1 Congressional District: 1 and 7

Council of Government: Central Arizona Council of Governments Council of Government: Central Arizona Council of Governments and Pima Association of Governments FHWA Engineering: A2 FHWA Engineering: A2 Legislative District: 23 Legislative District: 23 and 25 Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 100% Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 29% Land Ownership: Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 71% Private Land 4% State Trust Land 96% Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 4.5% Identified Species: Bureau of Reclamation 1.5% Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Private Land 43% Bobcat Lynx rufus State Trust Land 51% Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-owl Glaucidium brasilianum cactorum Identified Species: Javelina Tayassu tajacu Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Bobcat Lynx rufus Mountain Lion Felis concolor Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-owl Glaucidium brasilianum Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Photo by Erik F. Enderson cactorum Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Tiger Rattlesnake Crotalus tigris Javelina Tayassu tajacu Tucson Shovel-nosed Snake Chionactis occipitalis klauberi Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Mountain Lion Felis concolor Threats: Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Border Security Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea

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Linkage 80

Saguaro – Tortolita Sky Island Ecoregion Sonoran Desert Ecoregion (Linkage 79: continued) Threats: County: Pima and Pinal (Linkage 80: continued) Agriculture Threats: Border Security ADOT Engineering District: Tucson Agriculture Canal (Central Arizona Project) ADOT Maintenance: Oracle, Tucson North and Tucson South Canal (Central Arizona Project) Highway (I 10; Avra Valley) ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson Highway (I 10; Picture Road) Railroad Railroad

Urbanization Urbanization AGFD: Region V

Hydrology: Hydrology: BLM: Gila District Blanco Wash Santa Cruz River Cocio Wash Los Robles Wash Congressional District: 1, 7 and 8 Santa Cruz River Council of Government: Central Arizona Council of Governments and Pima Association of Governments

FHWA Engineering: A2

Legislative District: 23, 25, 26 and 27

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 92% Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 3% Semidesert Grassland 5%

Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 1% Private Land 68% State Trust Land 31%

Identified Species: Bobcat Lynx rufus Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-owl Glaucidium brasilianum cactorum

Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Javelina Tayassu tajacu Photo by John Hoffman Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis

Mountain Lion Felis concolor

Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus

Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus

Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii

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Linkage 81 Linkage 82

Santa Catalina - Tortolita Santa Catalina - Galliuro Sky Island Ecoregion Sky Island Ecoregion Sonoran Desert Ecoregion County: Cochise, Graham, Pima and Pinal County: Pima and Pinal (Linkage 81: continued) Threats: ADOT Engineering District: Safford and Tucson ADOT Engineering District: Tucson Agriculture ADOT Maintenance: Oracle, Safford, St. David and Tucson South ADOT Maintenance: Oracle and Tucson South Highway (SR 77; Tangerine Road) ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson Urbanization ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson

AGFD: Hydrology: Region V AGFD: Region V Batamote Wash BLM: Gila District Big Wash BLM: Gila District Canada del Oro Carpas Wash Congressional District: 1 and 8 Congressional District: 1 and 8 Chalk Wash Chirreon wash Council of Government: Central Arizona Council of Governments, Council of Government: Central Arizona Council of Governments Copper Wash Pima Association of Governments and South Eastern Governments and Pima Association of Governments Dodge Tank Wash Organization Faraway Wash FHWA Engineering: A2 Honey Bee Canyon Wash FHWA Engineering: A2 Indian Town Wash Legislative District: 23 and 26 Sahuarita Wash Legislative District: 5, 23, 25, 26 and 30 Sausalito Creek Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Sutherland Wash Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Twentynine Wash AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 4% AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 56% Interior Chaparral 3% Twentyseven Wash Chihuahuan Desertscrub 1% Semidesert Grassland 93% Interior Chaparral 1% Madrean Evergreen Woodland 2% Land Ownership: Semidesert Grassland 40% Private Land 34% State Trust Land 66% Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 2% Identified Species: Private Land 25% Bobcat Lynx rufus State Trust Land 73% California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus Identified Species: Javelina Tayassu tajacu Black Bear Ursus americanus Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mexican Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis lucida Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Mountain Lion Felis concolor Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Tiger Rattlesnake Crotalus tigris Southwestern Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii extimus Native Fishes White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus

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Linkage 83

Galliuro - Pinaleno Sky Island Ecoregion

(Linkage 82: continued) County: Cochise and Graham (Linkage 83: Identified Species continued) Threats: Pronghorn Antilocapra americana Agriculture ADOT Engineering District: Safford and Tucson Western Red Bat Lasiurus blossevillii Highway (Several Small Roads) ADOT Maintenance: Oracle and Safford White-bellied Long-tailed Vole Microtus longicaudus Railroad leucophaeus ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson Urbanization White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus

Hydrology: AGFD: Region V and Region VI Threats:

Alder Wash Highway (SR 266; Small Roads) Bollen Wash BLM: Gila District Urbanization Buehman Canyon Catalina Wash Congressional District: 1 and 8 Hydrology: Chimney Rock Creek Aravaipa Creek Clark Wash Council of Government: Central Arizona Council of Governments Ash Creek Copper Creek and South Eastern Arizona Governments Organization Bar-X Wash Flag Wash Big Creek Gibb Wash FHWA Engineering: A2 Box Spring Creek Gust James Wash Crazy Horse Wash Little Gust James Wash Legislative District: 5, 23 and 26 Deer Creek Mulberry Wash Fourmile Creek North Fork Clark Wash Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Fresnal Wash Peppersauce Wash AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub <1% Gardner Creek Peters Wash Great Basin Conifer Woodland 3% Goudy Canyon Wash Ray Spring Wash Interior Chaparral 5% Grant Creek Redfield Canyon Madrean Evergreen Woodland 3% Grapevine Canyon Wash San Pedro River Plains & Great Basin Grassland <1% High Creek Scanlon Wash Semidesert Grassland 89% Hog Canyon Wash South Fork Clark wash Horton Creek Soza Wash Land Ownership: Jesus Canyon Wash Stratton Wash Kennedy Falls Wash Private Land 37% K londyke Wash State Trust Land 63% Left Branch Long Hollow

Identified Species: Long Hollow Low Creek American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum Martin Wash Apache (Arizona) Trout Oncorhynchus apache Mud Springs Wash Black Bear Ursus americanus North Oak Creek Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Oak Creek Javelina Tayassu tajacu Paddys River Mexican Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis lucida Pitchfork Canyon Wash Mountain Lion Felis concolor Rattlesnake Creek Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Reiley Creek Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis

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Linkage 84

Pinaleno – San Simon Valley Sky Island Ecoregion

(Linkage 83: Hydrology continued) County: Graham (Linkage 84: continued) Right Branch Long Hollow Hydrology: Sand Wash ADOT Engineering District: Safford Dial Wash Sheep Wash ADOT Maintenance: Safford Gold Gulch South Fork Ash Creek ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson Jacobson Creek South Oak Creek Marijilda Wash

South Taylor Wash Oak Draw AGFD: Region V Squaw Creek Owl Wash Telegraph Wash Stockton Wash Turkey Creek BLM: Gila District WA Wash Two E Wash Willow Spring Wash Underwood Wash Congressional District: 1

Council of Government: South Eastern Arizona Governments Organization

FHWA Engineering: A2

Legislative District: 5

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types):

AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 14% Chihuahuan Desertscrub 0.5% Semidesert Grassland 85.5%

Land Ownership:

Bureau of Land Management 13%

Private Land 12%

State Trust Land 75%

Identified Species: Bobcat Lynx rufus Javelina Tayassu tajacu Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae Mexican Long-tongued Bat Choeronycteris mexicana Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus

Threats: Highway (US 191) Urbanization

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Linkage 85 Linkage 86

Avra Valley Kitt Peak Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Sky Island Ecoregion Sonoran Desert Ecoregion County: Pima (Linkage 85: continued) Hydrology: County: Pima ADOT Engineering District: Tucson Brawley Wash ADOT Maintenance: Three Points and Tucson South ADOT Engineering District: Tucson

ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson ADOT Maintenance: Three Points

ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson

AGFD: Region V AGFD: Region V

BLM: Gila District and Phoenix District BLM: Phoenix District Congressional District: 7 Congressional District: 7 Council of Government: Pima Association of Governments Council of Government: Pima Association of Governments FHWA Engineering: A2 FHWA Engineering: A2 Legislative District: 25 and 27 Legislative District: 25 Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 34% Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 66% AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 9% Madrean Evergreen Woodland 28% Land Ownership: Semidesert Grassland 63% Bureau of Land Management 1% Private Land 77% Land Ownership: State Trust Land 22% Private Land 1% Tribal Land (Tohono O’dham) 99% Identified Species: Bobcat Lynx rufus Identified Species:

Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-owl Glaucidium brasilianum Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-owl Glaucidium brasilianum

cactorum cactorum

Javelina Tayassu tajacu Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus

Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Maricopa Leaf-nosed Sn ake Phyllorhynchus browni lucidus

Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus

Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii

Threats: Threats: Border Security Agriculture Highway (SR 86; SR 386) Canal (Central Arizona Project) Urbanization Highway (Sandario Road) Urbanization

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Linkage 87

Tucson Mountains – San Xavier (San Robles Pass)

Sonoran Desert Ecoregion (Linkage 86: continued) (Linkage 87: continued) Hydrology: Threats: County: Pima Pan Tak Wash Border Security

Pavo Kug Wash Highway (SR 86) San Vicente Wash ADOT Engineering District: Tucson Urbanization Viopuli Wash ADOT Maintenance: Tucson South ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson Hydrology: Santa Cruz River AGFD: Region V West Branch Santa Cruz River

BLM: Gila District

Congressional District: 7

Council of Government: Pima Association of Governments

FHWA Engineering: A2

Legislative District: 25 and 27

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 100%

Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 4% Private Land 88% State Trust Land 5% Tribal Land (Pascau Yaqui; San Xavier) 3%

Identified Species: Bobcat Lynx rufus

California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Mountain Lion Felis concolor Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea

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Linkage 88 Linkage 89

Galliuro – Winchester - Dragoons Willcox Playa – Winchester – Pinaleno – Dos Sky Island Ecoregion Cabezas

Sky Island Ecoregion County: Cochise and Graham (Linkage 88: Identified Species continued) County: Cochise and Graham White-nosed Coati Nasua narica ADOT Engineering District: Safford ADOT Maintenance: Safford, St. David and Willcox White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus ADOT Engineering District: Safford ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson Threats: ADOT Maintenance: Safford, St. David and Willcox

Highway (I 10) ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson AGFD: Region V Railroad

Urbanization AGFD: Region V BLM: Gila District Hydrology: BLM: Gila District Congressional District: 1 and 8 Ash Creek Canyon Dragoon Wash Congressional District: 1 and 8 Council of Government: South Eastern Arizona Governments Hot Springs Canyon Organization South Fork Canyon Council of Government: South Eastern Arizona Governments Teran Wash Organization FHWA Engineering: A2 Tres Alamos Wash Walnut Wash FHWA Engineering: A2 Legislative District: 5 and 25

Legislative District: 5 and 25

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Chihuahuan Desertscrub <1% Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Madrean Evergreen Woodland 29% Madrean Evergreen Woodland 6% Plains & Great Basin Woodland 4% Semidesert Grassland 94% Semidesert Grassland 67% Land Ownership: Land Ownership: Private Land 57% Bureau of Land Management 2% State Trust Land 43% Private Land 24% State Trust Land 74% Identified Species: Bobcat Lynx rufus Identified Species: Chiracahua Leopard Frog Rana chiricahuensis Black Bear Ursus americanus Javelina Tayassu tajacu Chiracahua Leopard Frog Rana chiricahuensis Kit Fox Vulpes Macrotis Grassland Birds Mexican Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis lucida Javelina Tayassu tajacu Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mexican Long-tongued Bat Choeronycteris mexicana Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Mountain Lion Felis concolor Ornate Box Turtle Terrapene ornata Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Plains Leopard Frog Rana blairi Ornate Box Turtle Terrapene ornata Pronghorn Antilocapra americana Plains Leopard Frog Rana blairi Texas Horned Lizard Phrynosoma cornutum Texas Horned Lizard Phrynosom a cornutum Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea

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Linkage 90

Pinaleno – Dos Cabezas – San Simon Valley Sky Island Ecoregion

(Linkage 89: continued) County: Cochise and Graham Threats: (Linkage 90: Identified Species continued) Border Security ADOT Engineering District: Safford White-nosed Coati Nasua narica Highway (I 10; SR 186) ADOT Maintenance: Safford and Willcox Yellow-nosed Cotton Rat Sigmodon ochrognathus Railroad ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson Urbanization Threats:

AGFD: Region V Highway (I 10; US 191) Hydrology: Railroad Ash Creek Urbanization BLM: Gila District Bee Canyon Wash

Sacaton Wash Hydrology: Congressional District: 1 and 8 Wood Canyon Wash Dial Wash

East Whitetail Creek Council of Government: South Eastern Arizona Governments Gold Gulch Organization Happy Camp Wash Sacaton Wash FHWA Engineering: A2 San Simon River Vanar Wash Legislative District: 5 and 25 Wood Canyon Stream

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Chihuahuan Desertscrub 70% Madrean Evergreen Woodland 3% Semidesert Grassland 27%

Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 6% Private Land 37% State Trust Land 57%

Identified Species:

California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus

Fringed Myotis Myotis thysanodes

Jaguar Panthera onca

Javelina Tayassu tajacu

Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans

Mexican Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis lucida

Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus

Ornate Box Turtle Terrapene ornata

Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii

pallescens

Texas Horned Lizard Phrynosoma cornutum

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Linkage 91 Linkage 92

Baboquivari - San Luis Mountains San Xavier – Sierrita – Santa Rita Sky Island Ecoregion Sky Island Ecoregion Sonoran Desert Ecoregion County: Pima (Linkage 91: Identified Species continued) County: Pima ADOT Engineering District: Tucson Underwood’s Bonneted Bat Eumops underwoodi ADOT Maintenance: Three Points Western Red Bat Lasiurus blossevillii ADOT Engineering District: Tucson ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson Western Yellow Bat Lasiurus xanthinus ADOT Maintenance: Nogales, Three Points and Tucson South Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson occidentalis AGFD: Region V AGFD: Threats: Region V BLM: Gila District and Phoenix District Agriculture BLM: Gila District Border Security Congressional District: 7 Highway (SR 286) Urbanization Congr essional District: 7 and 8 Council of Government: Pima Association of Governments Hydrology: Council of Government: Pima Association of Governments FHWA Engineering: A2 Aros Wash Arroyo del Compartidero FHWA Engineering: A2 Legislative District: 25 Asolido Wash Bailey Wash Legislative District: 25 and 30 Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Chiltepines Wash Madrean Evergreen Woodland 11% Cuadro Wash Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Semidesert Grassland 89% La Osa Wash AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 23% Las Moras Wash Semidesert Grassland 77% Land Ownership: Legunita Wash National Wildlife Refuge Area (Buenos Aires) 27% Little Thomas Wash Land Ownership: Private Land 13% Los Encinos Wash Bureau of Land Management 2% State Trust Land 60% Placeritos Wash Private Land 48% Santa Margarita Wash State Trust Land 50% Identified Species: Thomas Canyon Wash Arizona Mud Turtle Kinosternon arizonense Identified Species: Baird’s Sparrow Ammodramus bairdii Black Bear Ursus americanus Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-owl Glaucidium brasilianum Cave Myotis Myotis velifer cactorum Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Gila Topminnow Poeciliopsis occidentalis occidentalis Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Jaguar Panthera onca Gila Topminnow Poeciliopsis occidentalis occidentalis Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae Jaguar Panthera onca Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis Javelina Tayassu tajacu Mountain Lion Felis concolor Masked Bobwhite Colinus virginianus ridgwayi Yellow-nosed Cotton Rat Sigmodon ochrognathus Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus occidentalis Pronghorn Antilocapra americana

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Linkage 93

Tumacacori – Santa Rita Sky Island Ecoregion (Linkage 93: Identified Species continued) (Linkage 92: continued) County: Pima and Santa Cruz White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus Threats: Border Security ADOT Engineering District: Tucson Threats: Canal (Central Arizona Project) ADOT Maintenance: Nogales, Three Points and Tucson South Border Security Highway (I 19) ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson Highway (US 19) Railroad Railroad Urbanization Urbanization AGFD: Region V

Hydrology: Hydrology: BLM: Gila District Box Canyon Wash Diablo Wash

Demetrie Wash Josephine Canyon Esperanza Wash Congressional District: 7 and 8 Santa Cruz River Santa Cruz River Tubac Creek Council of Government: Pima Association of Governments and South Eastern Arizona Governments Organization

FHWA Engineering: A2

Legislative District: 25 and 30

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Madrean Evergreen Woodland 3% Semidesert Grassland 97%

Land Ownership: Private Land 69% State Trust Land 31%

Identified Species: Gila Topminnow Poeciliopsis occidentalis occidentalis Jaguar Panthera onca Javelina Tayassu tajacu Longfin Dace Agosia chrysogaster Mexican Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis lucida Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Northern Gray Hawk Asturina nitida maxima

Northern Mexican Gartersnake Thamnophis eques megalops

Southwestern Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii extimus

Thick-billed Kingbird Tyrannus crassirostris

Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus occidentalis

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Linkage 94 Linkage 95

Rincon – Whetstone – Santa Rita Santa Rita – Empire Complex Sky Island Ecoregion Sky Island Ecoregion

County: Cochise and Pima (Linkage 94: Identified Species continued) County: Pima and Santa Cruz Mexican Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis lucida ADOT Engineering District: Safford and Tucson Mountain Lion Felis concolor ADOT Engineering District: Tucson ADOT Maintenance: Nogales, St. David, Tucson North and Northern Gray Hawk Asturina nitida maxima ADOT Maintenance: Nogales Tucson South Ornate Box Turtle Terrapene ornata ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson Western Red Bat Lasiurus blossevillii AGFD: Region V Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americana AGFD: Region V occidentalis White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus BLM: Gila District BLM: Gila District Threats: Congressional District: 8 Congressional District: 8 Border Security Highway (I 10; SR 83) Council of Government: Pima Association of Governments and Council of Government: Pima Association of Governments and Railroad South Eastern Arizona Governments Organization South Eastern Arizona Governments Organization Urbanization FHWA Engineering: A2 FHWA Engineering: A2 Hydrology: Agua Verde Creek Legislative District: 30 Legislative District: 25 and 30 Apache Canyon Stream Ash Creek Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Cienega Creek Madrean Evergreen Woodland 44% Chihuahuan Desertscrub 19.5% Cumaro Wash Plains & Great Basin Grassland 16% Madrean Evergreen Woodland 2% Fortynine Wash Semidesert Grassland 40% Semidesert Grassland 78.5% Martinez Wash Mescal Arroyo Land Ownership: Land Ownership: Montosa Canyon Stream Bureau of Land Management 15% Bureau of Land Management 3% Pantano Wash Private Land 51% Private Land 29% State Trust Land 3% State Trust Land 68% USDA Forest Service (Coronado) 31%

Identified Species: Identified Species: Black Bear Ursus americanus Black Bear Ursus americanus Chiracahua Leopard Frog Rana chiricahuensis Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus Jaguar Panthera onca Gila Chub Gila intermedia Javelina Tayassu tajacu Gila Topminnow Poeciliopsis occidentalis occidentalis Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae Javelina Tayassu tajacu Longfin Dace Agosia chrysogaster Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae Northern Gray Hawk Asturina nitida maxima Longfin Dace Agosia chrysogaster Mexican Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis lucida Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mexican Long-tongued Bat Choeronycteris mexicana Pronghorn Antilocapra americana

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Linkage 96

Patagonia – Santa Rita Sky Island Ecoregion

(Linkage 95: Identified Species continued) County: Santa Cruz (Linkage 96: Identified Species continued) Western Black Kingsnake Lampropeltis getula nigrita Mexican Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis lucida Western Red Bat Lasiurus blossevillii ADOT Engineering District: Tucson Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus ADOT Maintenance: Nogales Northern Gray Hawk Asturina nitida maxima Yellow-nosed Cotton Rat Sigmodon ochrognathus ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson Northern Mexican Gartersnake Thamnophis eques megalops Rose-throated Becard Pachyramphus aglaiae

Threats: Speckled Dace Rhinichthys osculus AGFD: Region V Border Security Thick-billed Kingbird Tyrannus crassirostris

Highway (SR 83) Violet-crowned Hummingbird Amazilia violiceps BLM: Gila District Urbanization Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus occidentalis Hydrology: Congressional District: 7 and 8 White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus Fortynine Wash Yellow-nosed Cotton Rat Sigmodon ochrognathus Gardner Canyon Stream Council of Government: South Eastern Arizona Governments Organization Threats: Border Security FHWA Engineering: A2 Highway (SR 82) Urbanization Legislative District: 25 and 30 Hydrology: Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Harshaw Creek Sonoita Creek Madrean Evergreen Woodland 10% Semidesert Grassland 90%

Land Ownership: Private Land 96% State Trust Land 4%

Identified Species: Black-bellied Whistling Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-owl Glaucidium brasilianum cactorum Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Chiracahua Leopard Frog Rana chiricahuensis Common Black Hawk Buteogallus anthracinus Desert Sucker Catostomus clarki Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus Gila Topminnow Poeciliopsis occidentalis occidentalis Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae Longfin Dace Agosia chrysogaster Mexican Long-tongued Bat Choeronycteris mexicana

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Linkage 97 Linkage 98

Whetstone – San Pedro River Las Cienegas – Huachuca Sky Island Ecoregion Sky Island Ecoregion

County: Cochise (Linkage 97: Identified Species continued) County: Cochise and Santa Cruz White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus ADOT Engineering District: Safford ADOT Engineering District: Safford and Tucson ADOT Maintenance: St. David Threats: ADOT Maintenance: Nogales and St. David ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson Border Security ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson Highway (SR 90) Railroad AGFD: Region V AGFD: Region V Urbanization

BLM: Gila District Hydrology: BLM: Gila District

California Wash Congressional District: 8 Middle Canyon Wash Congressional District: 8

Council of Government: South Eastern Arizona Governments Council of Government: Pima Association of Governments and Organization South Eastern Arizona Governments Organization

FHWA Engineering: A2 FHWA Engineering: A2

Legislative District: 25 Legislative District: 25 and 30

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Chihuahuan Desertscrub 27% Madrean Evergreen Woodland 7% Semidesert Grassland 73% Plains & Great Basin Grassland 87% Semidesert Grassland 6% Land Ownership: Private Land 29% Land Ownership: State Trust Land 71% Bureau of Land Management 2% Private Land 89.5% Identified Species: State Trust Land 8.5% Arizona Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake Crotalus willardi willardi Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Identified Species: Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus Baird’s Sparrow Ammodramus bairdii Javelina Tayassu tajacu Black Bear Ursus americanus Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Mexican Long-tongued Bat Choeronycteris mexicana Chiracahua Leopard Frog Rana chiricahuensis Mexican Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis lucida Mexican Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis lucida Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Northern Gray Hawk Asturina nitida maxima Pronghorn Antilocapra Americana Texas Horned Lizard Phrynosoma cornutum Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake Crotalus willardi willardi Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus Sprague’s Pipit Anthus spragueii occidentalis Western Red Bat Lasiurus blossevillii

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Linkage 99

Dragoon – San Pedro River Sky Island Ecoregion

(Linkage 98: Identified Species continued) County: Cochise White-nosed Coati Nasua narica (Linkage 99: continued) White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus ADOT Engineering District: Safford Threats: ADOT Maintenance: Douglas and St. David Border Security Threats: ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson Fences Highway (SR 80) Agriculture Urbanization Border Security AGFD: Region V Grazing

Highway (SR 82) Hydrology: BLM: Gila District Urbanization Clifford Wash Haberstock Wash Hydrology: Congressional District: 8 Walnut Gulch Babocomari River Willow Wash Blacktail Wash Council of Government: South Eastern Arizona Governments Mescal Creek Organization Slaughterhouse Wash Turkey Creek FHWA Engineering: A2

Legislative District: 25

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Chihuahuan Desertscrub 77% Madrean Evergreen Woodland 4% Semidesert Grassland 19%

Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 7% Private Land 19% State Trust Land 74%

Identified Species: Javelina Tayassu tajacu Longfin Dace Agosia chrysogaster Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Northern Gray Hawk Asturina nitida maxima Northern Mexican Gartersnake Thamnophis eques megalops Ornate Box Turtle Terrapene ornata Texas Horned Lizard Phrynosoma cornutum Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus

occidentalis White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus

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Linkage 100 Linkage 101

Fort Huachuca - San Pedro River Chiricahuas - Peloncillos Sky Island Ecoregion Sky Island Ecoregion

County: Cochise (Linkage 100: Threats continued) County: Cochise Railroad ADOT Engineering District: Safford Urbanization ADOT Engineering District: Safford ADOT Maintenance: St. David ADOT Maintenance: Douglas ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson Hydrology: ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson Soldier Creek AGFD: Region V AGFD: Region V

BLM: Gila District BLM: Gila District

Congressional District: 8 Congressional District: 8

Council of Government: South Eastern Arizona Governments Council of Government: South Eastern Arizona Governments Organization Organization

FHWA Engineering: A2 FHWA Engineering: A2

Legislative District: 25 and 30 Legislative District: 25

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types):

Semidesert Grassland 100% Chihuahuan Desertscrub 12%

Madrean Evergreen Woodland 3%

Land Ownership: Semidesert Grassland 85%

Department of Defense (Fort Huachuca) 55% Land Ownership: Private Land 38% State Trust Land 7% Private Land 35% State Trust Land 65%

Identified Species: Identified Species: Black Bear Ursus americanus Baird’s Sparrow Ammodramus bairdii Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Black Bear Ursus americanus Javelina Tayassu tajacu Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Mountain Lion Felis concolor Chiracahua Leopard Frog Rana chiricahuensis Ornate Box Turtle Terrapene ornata Desert Massasauga Sistrurus catenatus edwardsii White-nosed Coati Nasua narica Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus Jaguar Panthera onca Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo Photo Credit: Reno Mexican Long-tongued Bat Choeronycteris mexicana

Sommerhalder Mountain Lion Felis concolor Threats: Ornate Box Turtle Terrapene ornata Border Security Texas Horned Lizard Phrynosoma cornutum Highway (SR 90) White-nosed Coati Nasua narica Military Usage

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Linkage 102

Western International Border Sky Island Ecoregion Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

(Linkage 101: continued) County: Pima, Santa Cruz and Yuma (Linkage 102: Identified Species continued) Threats: Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Agriculture ADOT Engineering District: Tucson and Yuma Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus Border Security ADOT Maintenance: Three Points and Yuma Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus H ighway (SR 80) ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix and Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad Gastrophryne olivacea Railroad Javelina Tayassu tajacu Tucson Urbanization Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis

Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae AGFD: Region IV and Region V Hydrology: Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans

Black Draw Maricopa Leaf-nosed Snake Phyllorhynchus browni lucidus BLM: Colorado River District, Gila District and Phoenix District Buck Creek Massasauga Sistrurus catenatus Cottonwood Creek Mexican Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata trivirgata Danger Wash Congressional District: 7 Mountain Lion Felis concolor Hackberry Wash Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Hay Hollow Wash Council of Government: Pima Association of Governments and Organ Pipe Shovel-nosed Snake Chionactis palarostris Indian Creek Yuma Metropolitan Planning Organization organica Mulberry Draw Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Silver Creek FHWA Engineering: A2 and A3 pallescens Sycamore Creek Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Wildcat Wash Legislative District: 24 and 25 Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake Crotalus willardi obscurus Red-back Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti xanthonota Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub Sonoran Pronghorn Antilocapra americana sonoriensis Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub Underwood’s Bonneted Bat Eumops underwoodi Semidesert Grassland Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea *Note: Linkage extends into Mexico Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis

Land Ownership: Threats: Bureau of Land Management Border Security National Parks Burros Tribal Land (Tohono O’dham) Fencing/Grazing State Trust Land Highway (SR 85; Mexico Highway 2) *Note: Linkage extends into Mexico Military Usage Urbanization Identified Species: Hydrology: Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Arizona Mud Turtle Kinosternon arizonense Aguajita Wash Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Chukut Kuk Wash Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis La Jolla Wash California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus San Simon Wash Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Vamori Wash

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Linkage 103 Linkage 104

Altar Valley – Mexico Tumacacori – Mexico Sky Island Ecoregion Sky Island Ecoregion

County: Pima County: Pima and Santa Cruz (Linkage 103: Identified Species continued) ADOT Engineering District: Tucson Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis ADOT Engineering District: Tucson ADOT Maintenance: Three Points Masked Bobwhite Colinus virginianus ridgwayi ADOT Maintenance: Nogales and Three Points ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus

Pronghorn Antilocapra americana AGFD: Region V AGFD: Region V Underwood’s Bonneted Bat Eumops underwoodi Western Red Bat Lasiurus blossevillii BLM: Gila District and Phoenix District Western Yellow Bat Lasiurus xanthinus BLM: Gila District Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus Congressional District: 7 occidentalis Congressional District: 7 Yellow-nosed Cotton Rat Sigmodon ochrognathus Council of Government: Pima Association of Governments Council of Government: South Eastern Arizona Governments Threats: Organization and Pima Association of Governments FHWA Engineering: A2 Agriculture Border Security FHWA Engineering: A2 Legislative District: 25 Highway (SR 286) Urbanization Legislative District: 25 Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Madrean Evergreen Woodland Hydrology: Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Semidesert Grassland Arroyo del Sasabe Madrean Evergreen Woodland *Note: Linkage extends into Mexico La Osa Wash Semidesert Grassland *Note: Linkage extends into Mexico Land Ownership: National Wildlife Refuge Area (Buenos Aires) Land Ownership: Private Land Private Land State Trust Land *Note: Linkage extends into Mexico *Note: Linkage extends into Mexico Identified Species: Identified Species: Baird’s Sparrow Ammodramus bairdii Arizona Mud Turtle Kinosternon arizonense Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-owl Glaucidium brasilianum Baird’s Sparrow Ammodramus bairdii cactorum Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-owl Glaucidium brasilianum California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus cactorum Cave Myotis Myotis velifer California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Elegant Trogon Trogon elegans Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti strictogrammus Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti strictogrammus Gila Topminnow Poeciliopsis occidentalis occidentalis Gila Topminnow Poeciliopsis occidentalis occidentalis Jaguar Panthera onca Jaguar Panthera onca Javelina Tayassu tajacu Javelina Tayassu tajacu Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis Longfin Dace Agosia chrysogaster

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Linkage 105

Santa Cruz – Mexico Sky Island Ecoregion

(Linkage 104: Identified Species continued) County: Santa Cruz Mexican Long-tongued Bat Choeronycteris mexicana (Linkage 105: Identified Species continued) Mexican Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis lucida ADOT Engineering District: Tucson Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus Mountain Lion Felis concolor ADOT Maintenance: Nogales occidentalis Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus Northern Gray Hawk Asturina nitida maxima Yellow-nosed Cotton Rat Sigmodon ochrognathus

Northern Mexican Gartersnake Thamnophis eques megalops AGFD: Region V Southwestern Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii extimus Threats:

Thick-billed Kingbird Tyrannus crassirostris Border Security BLM: Gila District Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus De-watering of the River occidentalis Urbanization White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus Congressional District: 7 Yellow-nosed Cotton Rat Sigmodon ochrognathus Hydrology: Council of Government: South Eastern Arizona Governments Santa Cruz River Threats: Organization Border Security Urbanization FHWA Engineering: A2

Hydrology: Legislative District: 25 Canoa Wash Cantina Wash Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Fresnal Wash Madrean Evergreen Woodland Potrero Creek Semidesert Grassland Sycamore Canyon *Note: Linkage extends into Mexico Tres Bellotas Canyon Land Ownership: Private Land *Note: Linkage extends into Mexico

Identified Species: Black-bellied Whistling Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti strictogrammus Gila Topminnow Poeciliopsis occidentalis occidentalis Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad Gastrophryne olivacea Jaguar Panthera onca Javelina Tayassu tajacu Longfin Dace Agosia chrysogaster Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis Northern Gray Hawk Asturina nitida maxima Northern Mexican Gartersnake Thamnophis eques megalops Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii

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Linkage 106 Linkage 107

Patagonia/Huachuca – Mexico San Pedro River – Mexico Sky Island Ecoregion Sky Island Ecoregion

County: Cochise and Santa Cruz (Linkage 106: Identified Species continued) County: Cochise Northern Buff-breasted Flycatcher Empidonax fulvifrons ADOT Engineering District: Safford and Tucson pygmaeus ADOT Engineering District: Safford ADOT Maintenance: Douglas and Nogales Northern Gray Hawk Asturina nitida maxima ADOT Maintenance: Douglas ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson Northern Mexican Gartersnake Thamnophis eques megalops ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake Crotalus willardi willardi

Texas Horned Lizard Phrynosoma cornutum AGFD: Region V AGFD: Region V Violet-crowned Hummingbird Amazilla violiceps Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus BLM: Gila District occidentalis BLM: Gila District White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus Congressional District: 7 and 8 Yellow-nosed Cotton Rat Sigmodon ochrognathus Congressional District: 8

Council of Government: South Eastern Arizona Governments Threats: Council of Government: South Eastern Arizona Governments Organization Border Security Organization Urbanization FHWA Engineering: A2 FHWA Engineering: A2 Hydrology: Legislative District: 25 Bear Creek Legislative District: 25 Joaquin Creek Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Santa Cruz River Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Madrean Evergreen Woodland Semidesert Grassland Plains & Great Plains Grassland *Note: Linkage extends into Mexico Semidesert Grassland *Note: Linkage extends into Mexico Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management Land Ownership: Private Land Private Land *Note: Linkage extends into Mexico USDA Forest Service (Coronado) *Note: Linkage extends into Mexico Identified Species: Arizona Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake Crotalus willardi willardi Identified Species: Baird’s Sparrow Ammodramus bairdii Arizona Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake Crotalus willardi willardi Bobcat Lynx rufus Baird’s Sparrow Ammodramus bairdii Black-bellied Whistling Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis Chiracahua Leopard Frog Rana chiricahuensis Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Desert Massasauga Sistrurus catenatus edwardsii Chiracahua Leopard Frog Rana chiricahuensis Jaguar Panthera onca Desert Sucker Catostomus clarki Javelina Tayassu tajacu Jaguar Panthera onca Longfin Dace Agosia chrysogaster Longfin Dace Agosia chrysogaster Mexican Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis lucida Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Northern Gray Hawk Asturina nitida maxima

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Linkage 108

San Bernadino - Mexico Sky Island Ecoregion

(Linkage 107: Identified Species continued) County: Cochise (Linkage 108: Identified Species continued) Northern Mexican Gartersnake Thamnophis eques megalops Texas Horned Lizard Phrynosoma cornutum Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus ADOT Engineering District: Safford White-nosed Coati Nasua narica occidentalis ADOT Maintenance: Douglas White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson Threats: Yellow-nosed Cotton Rat Sigmodon ochrognathus Agriculture

AGFD: Region V Border Security Threats: Urbanization

Border Security BLM: Gila District Highway (SR 92) Hydrology:

Urbanization Black Draw Congressional District: 8 Hay Hollow Wash Hydrology: Silver Creek San Pedro River Council of Government: South Eastern Governments Organization

FHWA Engineering: A2

Legislative District: 25

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Chihuahuan Desertscrub *Note: Linkage extends into Mexico

Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management National Wildlife Refuge (San Bernadino) Private Land State Trust Land *Note: Linkage extends into Mexico

Identified Species: Baird’s Sparrow Ammodramus bairdii Bobcat Lynx rufus Black Bear Ursus americanus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Chiracahua Leopard Frog Rana chiricahuensis Desert Massasauga Sistrurus catenatus edwardsii Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Jaguar Panthera onca Mexican Long-tongued Bat Choeronycteris mexicana Mountain Lion Felis concolor

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Linkage 109 Linkage 110

Peloncillo – Mexico Beaver Dam Slope East – West Sky Island Ecoregion Mohave Desert Ecoregion

County: Cochise (Linkage 109: Identified Species continued) County: Mohave Texas Horned Lizard Phrynosoma cornutum ADOT Engineering District: Safford White-nosed Coati Nasua narica ADOT Engineering District: Flagstaff ADOT Maintenance: Douglas ADOT Maintenance: Fredonia ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucso n Threats: ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Flagstaff Agriculture AGFD: Region V Border Security AGFD: Region II Urbanization

BLM: Gila District BLM: Arizona Strip District Hydrology:

Guadalupe Canyon Congressional District: 8 Congressional District: 2

Council of Government: South Eastern Arizona Governments Council of Government: Western Arizona Council of Governments Organization FHWA Engineering: A2 FHWA Engineering: A2 Legislative District: 3 Legislative District: 25 Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Mohave Desertscrub 82% Chihuahuan Desertscrub *Note: Linkage extends into Utah Madrean Evergreen Woodland Semidesert Grassland Land Ownership: *Note: Linkage extends into Mexico Bureau of Land Management 66% State Trust Land 16% Land Ownership: *Note: Linkage extends into Utah Bureau of Land Management Private Land Identified Species: State Land Allen’s Big-eared Bat Idionycteris phyllotis *Note: Linkage extends into Mexico American Peregrine Falcon Falco pergrinus anatum Arizona Toad Bufo microscaphus Identified Species: Bobcat Lynx rufus Baird’s Sparrow Ammodramus bairdii Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Black Bear Ursus americanus Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Cave Myotis Myotis velifer California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Chiracahua Leopard Frog Rana chiricahuensis Common Black-hawk Buteogallus anthracinus Desert Massasauga Sistrurus catenatus edwardsii Hoary Bat Lasiurus cinereus Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Jaguar Panthera onca Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis Mexican Long-tongued Bat Choeronycteris mexicana Maricopa Tiger Beetle Cicindela oregona maricopa Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mohave Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii

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Linkage 111

Mohave Mountains – Castaneda Hills Mohave Desert Ecoregion

(Linkage 110: Identified Species continued) County: Mohave (Linkage 111: Identified Species continued) Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus ADOT Engineering District: Kingman Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Spotted Bat Euderma maculatum ADOT Maintenance: Needle Mountain Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott pallescens Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Threats: Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii County Road AGFD: Region III Livestock Speckled Rattlesnake Crotalus mitchellii

Recreation Swainson’s Hawk Buteo swainsoni BLM: Colorado River District Urbanization Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Congr essional District: Hydrology: 2 Beaver Dam Wash Threats: Castle Cliff Wash Council of Government: Western Arizona Council of Governments Recreation Urbanization FHWA E ngineering: A4 Hydrology: Legislative District: 3 Crozier Wash Middle Mohave Wash Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Mohave Wash AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 93% Standard Wash Mohave Desertscrub 7%

Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 99% Private Land 1%

Identified Species: American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Bobcat Lynx rufus California Leaf-Nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Fringed Myotis Myotis thysanodes Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Mohave Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii

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Linkage 112 Linkage 113

Gibraltar Mountain – Cactus Plain Poachie Range – Black Mountains Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

County: La Paz County: Yavapai (Linkage 112: continued)

Threats: ADOT Engineering District: Yuma ADOT Engineering District: Kingman Burros ADOT Maintenance: ADOT Maintenance: Quartzsite Central Arizona Project Canal Wikieup ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott Recreation ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott Road (Osborne Well Road) A:GFD Region IV AGFD: Region III and Region IV Hydrology: BLM: Colorado River District Osborne Wash BLM: Colorado River District

Congressional District: 7 Congressional District: 1

Council of Government: Western Arizona Council of Governments Council of Government: Northern Arizona Council of Governments FHWA Engineering: A3 FHWA Engineering: A4 Legislative District: 3 Legislative District: 4 Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): L ower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100% Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 100% Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 100% Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 95% Identified Species: Private Land 1% Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater State Trust Land 4% Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus Identified Species: Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotis American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Arizona Myotis Myotis occultus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Arizona Night Lizard Xantusia arizonae Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Arizona Toad Bufo microscaphus Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Mojave Fringe-toed Lizard Uma scoparia Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotis Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Bobcat Lynx rufus pallescens California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Common Black-hawk Buteogallus anthracinus Southwest Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii extimus Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Fringed Myotis Myotis thysanodes

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Linkage 114

Harcuvar Mountains – Black Mountains Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

(Linkage 113: Identified Species continued) County: Yavapai (Linkage 114: Identified Species continued) Gambel’s Quail Callipepla gambelii Fringed Myotis Myotis thysanodes Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus ADOT Engineering District: Prescott and Kingman Gambel’s Quail Callipepla gambelii Javelina Tayassu tajacu ADOT Maintenance: Wickenburg and Wikieup Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott Javelina Tayassu tajacu Longfin Dace Agosia chrysogaster Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis

Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Longfin Dace Agosia chrysogaster AGFD: Region IV Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Mohave Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis Mountain Lion Felis concolor BLM: Colorado River District and Phoenix District Mohave Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Mountain Lion Felis concolor Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Congressional District: 1 Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus pallescens Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Council of Government: Northern Arizona Council of pallescens Pronghorn Antilocapra americana Governments Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Ringtail Bassariscus astutus Pronghorn Antilocapra americana Riparian Obligates FHWA Engineering: A4 Ringtail Bassariscus astutus Roundtail Chub Gila robusta Riparian Obligates Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Legislative District: 4 Roundtail Chub Gila robusta Sonora Sucker Catostomus insignis Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Southwestern Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii extimus Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Sonora Sucker Catostomus insignis Speckled Rattlesnake Crotalus mitchellii AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 7% Southwestern Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii extimus Swainson’s Hawk Buteo swainsoni Mohave Desertscrub 93% Speckled Rattlesnake Crotalus mitchellii Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Swainson’s Hawk Buteo swainsoni Western Small-footed Bat Myotis ciliolabrum Land Ownership: Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus Western Small-footed Bat Myotis ciliolabrum Bureau of Land Management 85% occidentalis Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus Private Land 6% Yuma Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris yumanensis occidentalis State Trust Land 9% Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Yuma Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris yumanensis

Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo albonotatus Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Identified Species: Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo albonotatus Threats: American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Recreation Threats: Arizona Myotis Myotis occultus Urbanization Recreation Arizona Night Lizard Xantusia arizonae Roads (Alamo Road; Palmerito Ranch Road) Arizona Toad Bufo microscaphus Hydrology: Urbanization Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Peoples Creek Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotis Hydrology: Santa Maria River Bobcat Lynx rufus California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Bullard Wash Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Date Creek Common Black-hawk Buteogallus anthracinus Miller Wash Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia

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Linkage 115 Linkage 116

Cunningham Pass North – South Plumosa Mountains Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

County: La Paz County: La Paz (Linkage 115: Identified Species continued)

Threats: ADOT Engineering District: Prescott ADOT Engineering District: Yuma Powerline Corridor ADOT Maintenance: ADOT Maintenance: Wickenburg Recreation Quartzsite ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott Roads (Alamo Road) ADOT N atural Resources Management Section: Prescott Urbanization AGFD: Region IV AGFD: Region IV Hydrology: BLM: Colorado River District None identified BLM: Colorado River District

Congressional District: 2 and 7 Congressional District: 7

Council of Government: Western Arizona Council of Governments Council of Government: Western Arizona Council of Governments

FHWA Engineering: A4 FHWA Engineering: A3

Legislative District: 3 Legislative District: 3

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 98% Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100% Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 2% Land Ownership: Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 100% Bureau of Land Management 89% Private Land 11% Identified Species:

Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Identified Species: Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotis Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotis California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotis californicus California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Mojave Fringe-toed Lizard Uma scoparia Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii pallescens pallescens Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis

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Linkage 117

South Trigo Peaks – Trigo Mountains Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

(Linkage 116: continued) County: La Paz Threats: (Linkage 117: continued)

Recreation Threats: ADOT Engineering District: Road (Plumosa Road) Yuma Military Usage Urbanization ADOT Maintenance: Quartzsite Recreation ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix Roads (Cibola East Road) Hydrology: Urbanization None identified AGFD: Region IV Hydrology: BLM: Colorado River District Mohave Wash

Congressional District: 7

Council of Government: Western Arizona Council of Governments

FHWA Engineering: A3

Legislative District: 24

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100%

Land Ownership: Department of Defense (Yuma Test Range) 98% State Trust Land 2%

Identified Species: Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Mountain Lion Felis concolor Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii pallescens Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis

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Linkage 118 Linkage 119 Indian Well – Livingston Hills Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Livingston Hills – Kofa Mountains Sonoran Desert Ecoregion County: La Paz (Linkage 118: Identified Species continued) Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis County: La Paz and Yuma ADOT Engineering District: Yuma ADOT Maintenance: Quartzsite Threats: ADOT Engineering District: Yuma ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix Recreation ADOT Maintenance: Quartzsite Roads (Pipeline Road) ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix AGFD: Region IV Hydrology: AGFD: Region IV BLM: Colorado River District Cave Creek French Creek BLM: Colorado River District

Congressional District: 7

Congressional District: 7

Council of Government: Western Arizona Council of Governments Council of Government: Western Arizona Council of Governments FHWA Engineering: A3 and Yuma Metropolitan Planning Organization

Legislative District: 24 FHWA Engineering: A3

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Legislative District: 24 AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 20% Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 80% Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 46% Land Ownership: Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 54% National Wildlife Refuge (Kofa) 95% Private Land 5% Land Ownership: National Wildlife Refuge (Kofa) 100% Identified Species: Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Identified Species: Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus

Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Javelina Tayassu tajacu Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mountain Lion Felis concolor Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii pallescens pallescens Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis

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Linkage 120

Eagletail Mountains – Clanton Hills – Little Horn Mountains

Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

(Linkage 119: continued) (Linkage 120: Identified Species continued) Count y: La Paz, Maricopa and Yuma Threats: Mountain Lion Felis concolor

Off Road Usage Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Recreation ADOT Engineering District: Yuma pallescens Roads ADOT Maintenance: Gila Bend and Quartzsite Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus ADOT Natural Resour ces Management Section: Phoenix and Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Hydrology: Prescott Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis French Creek AGFD: Region IV Threats: Off Road Usage BLM: Colorado River District Recreation Roads (Palomas Harquahala Road) Congressional District: 7 Hydrology: Council of Government: Maricopa Association of Governments, Deadman Wash Western Arizona Council of Governments and Yuma Metropolitan Planning Organization

FHWA Engineering: A3

Legislative District: 24 and 25

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 27% Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 73%

Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 96% Private Land 4%

Identified Species: Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Bobcat Lynx rufus California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans

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Linkage 121 Linkage 122

Harquahala Mountains – Little Harquahala Harquahala Mountains – Belmont Mountains – Mountains Big Horn Mountains (Linkage 121: Identified Species continued) Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis County: La Paz County: Maricopa

Threats: ADOT Engineering District: Prescott ADOT Engineering District: Prescott and Yuma Off Road Usage ADOT Maintenance: Wickenburg Recreation ADOT Maintenance: Gila Bend and Wickenburg ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott Roads (Salome Road, Sorefinger Road) ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Prescott Urbanization AGFD: Region IV AGFD: Region 4 Hydrology: BLM: Colorado River District Centennial Wash BLM: Phoenix District

Congressional District: 7 Congressional District: 2

Council of Government: Western Arizona Council of Governments Council of Government: Maricopa Association of Governments

FHWA Engineering: A4 FHWA Engineering: A3 and A4

Legislative District: 24 Legislative District: 4 and 25

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 51% AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 78% Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 49% Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 22%

Land Ownership: Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 85% Bureau of Land Management 99% Private Land 11% State Trust Land 1% State Trust Land 4% Identified Species: Identified Species: Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotis Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Bobcat Lynx rufus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Mountain Lion Felis concolor pallescens Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus pallescens

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Linkage 123

Mohave Peak – Chocolate Mountains Sonoran Desert Ecoregion (Linkage 122: Identified Species continued) Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus County: La Paz (Linkage 123: Threats continued) Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Off Road Usage Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis ADOT Engineering District: Yuma ADOT Maintenance: Quartzsite Hydrology: Threats: ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix McAllister Wash Off Road Usage Recreation AGFD: Region IV Roads

Urbanization BLM: Colorado River District

Hydrology: Congressional District: 7 Tiger Wash

Council of Government: Western Arizona Council of Governments

FHWA Engineering: A3

Legislative District: 24

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100%

Land Ownership: Department of Defense (Yuma Test Range) 100%

Identified Species:

Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum

Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus

Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis

California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus

Cave Myotis Myotis velifer

Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus

Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans

Mountain Lion Felis concolor

Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii

pallescens

Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus

Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii

Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis

Threats: Military Usage

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Linkage 124 Linkage 125

Kofa Mountains – Castle Dome Tank Mountains – Palomas Mountains Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

County: Yuma (Linkage 124: continued) County: Yuma Threats: ADOT Engineering District: Yuma Off Road Usage ADOT Engineering District: Yuma ADOT Maintenance: Quartzsite Recreation ADOT Maintenance: Yuma ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix Roads ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix

Hydrology: AGFD: Region IV AGFD: Region IV None identified

BLM: Colorado River District BLM: Colorado River District

Congressional District: Congressional District: 7 7

Council of Government: Yuma Metropolitan Planning Council of Government: Yuma Metropolitan Planning Orgainization Organization

FHWA Engineering: A3 FHWA Engineering: A3

Legislative District: 24 Legislative District: 24

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 65% Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100% Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 35% Land Ownership: Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 51.5% National Wildlife Refuge (Kofa) 100% Department of Defense (Yuma Test Range) 45% State Trust Land 3.5% Identified Species: Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Identified Species: Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Mountain Lion Felis concolor Flat-tailed Horned Lizard Phrynosoma mcallii Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Great Egret Ardea alba pallescens Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Least Bittern Ixobrychus exilis Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Mountain Lion Felis concolor

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Linkage 126

Bunyan Peak – Painted Rock Mountains Sky Island Ecoregion

(Linkage 125: Identified Species continued) County: Maricopa (Linkage 125: Identified Species continued) Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus pallescens ADOT Engineering District: Yuma Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus ADOT Maintenance: Gila Bend Sonoran Pronghorn Antilocapra americana sonoriensis Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix Southwestern Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii extimus Sonoran Pronghorn Antilocapra americana sonoriensis Snowy Egret Egretta thula

Southwestern Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii extimus Spotted Bat Euderma maculatum AGFD: Region IV Snowy Egret Egretta thula Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Spotted Bat Euderma maculatum Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea BLM: Phoenix District occidentalis Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus White-faced Ibis Plegadis chihi occidentalis Congressional District: 7 Yuma Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris yumanensis White-faced Ibis Plegadis chihi Yuman Desert Fringe-toed Lizard Uma notata rufopunctata Yuma Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris yumanensis Council of Government: Maricopa Association of Governments Yuman Desert Fringe-toed Lizard Uma notata rufopunctata Threats: FHWA Engineering: A3 Off Road Usage Threats: Recreation Military Usage Legislative District: 25 Roads Off Road Usage Recreation Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Hydrology: Roads (Old Palomas – Yuma Road) AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 43% Gila River Lower Colorado River Desertscrub 57% Painted Rock Reservoir Hydrology: None identified Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 98% State Wildlife Area (Painted Rock) 2%

Identified Species: Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Flat-tailed Horned Lizard Phrynosoma mcallii Great Egret Ardea alba Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus

Least Bittern Ixobrychus exilis Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Mountain Lion Felis concolor Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii

pallescens

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Linkage 127 Linkage 128

Margies Peak – Sheep Mountain North Maricopa – South Maricopa Mountains Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

County: Maricopa (Linkage 127: Identified Species continued) County: Maricopa Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii ADOT Engineering District: Yuma Yuma Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris yumanensis ADOT Engineering District: Tucson and Yuma ADOT Maintenance: Gila Bend Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis ADOT Maintenance: Casa Grande and Gila Bend ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix Threats: AGFD: Region IV and Region VI Off Road Usage AGFD: Region IV Recreation

Roads BLM: Phoenix District BLM: Phoenix District

Hydrology: Congressional District: 7 Congressional District: 7 None identified

Council of Government: Maricopa Association of Governments Council of Government: Maricopa Association of Governments

FHWA Engineering: A3 FHWA Engineering: A2 and A3

Legislative District: 25 Legislative District: 25

Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 56% AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 54% Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 44% Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 46%

Land Ownership: Land Ownership: Bureau of Land Management 100% Bureau of Land Management 100%

Identified Species: Identified Species: Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Javelina Tayassu tajacu Javelina Tayassu tajacu Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Pale Townsend's Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Pale Townsend's Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii pallescens pallescens Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops fem orosaccus

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Linkage 129

Southern Colorado River Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

(Linkage 128: Identified Species continued) County: Yuma (Linkage 129: Identified Species continued) Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Long-legged Bat Myotis volans Yuma Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris yumanensis ADOT Engineering District: Yuma Mountain Lion Felis concolor Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis ADOT Maintenance: Yuma Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix pallescens Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Threats: Pronghorn Antilocapra americana Off Road Usage AGFD: Region 4 Railroad Snowy Egret Egretta thula

Roads (SR 238) Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii BLM: Colorado River District Urbanization Spotted Bat Euderma maculatum Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Congressional District: Hydrology: 7 Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus None identified Occidentalis Council of Government: Yuma Metropolitan Planning Yuma Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris yumanensis Organization Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Yuman Desert Fringe-toed Lizard Uma notata rufopunctata FHWA Engineering: A3 Threats: Legislative District: 24 Border Security Canal (All American Canal; East Main Canal; Main Canal; Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Main Outlet Drain; North Drain; North Gila Main Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 53% Canal; Thacker Lateral; West Main Canal) *Note: Linkage extends into California Highways and Roads (California County Road S24; Fishers Landing Road; I 8; Laguna Dam Road; Red Cloud Land Ownership: Mine Road) Bureau of Land Management 13% Military Usage National Wildlife Refuge (Imperial Mountain) 4% Off Road Usage Private Land 25% Railroad State Trust Land 7% Recreation Tribal Land (Cocopah; Fort Yuma) 5% Urbanization *Note: Linkage extends into California Hydrology: Identified Species: All American Canal Araz Wash Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Colorado River Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus East Main Canal Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Ferguson Wash California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Gila Riv er Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Indian Wash Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Los Angeles Wash Great Egret Ardea alba Main Canal Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Main Outlet Drain

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Linkage 130

Chocolate Mountains – Trigo Mountains – Laguna Mountains (Linkage 130: Identified Species continued) Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Hydrology (Linkage 129: continued) Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus McAllister Wash Long-legged Bat Myotis volans County: La Paz and Yuma North Drain Mountain Lion Felis concolor

North Gila Main Canal Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Thacker Lateral ADOT Engineering District: Yuma pallescens West Main Canal ADOT Maintenance: Yuma Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix Pronghorn Antilocapra americana Snowy Egret Egretta thula A:GFD Region 4 Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Spotted Bat Euderma maculatum BLM: Colorado River District Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus Congressional District: 7 Occidentalis Yuma Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris yumanensis Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Council of Government: Western Arizona Council of Governments Yuman Desert Fringe-toed Lizard Uma notata rufopunctata and Yuma Metropolitan Planning Organization

Threats: FHWA Engineering: A3 Border S ecurity

Canals Legislative District: 24 Military Usage Off Road Usage Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Recreation Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100% Roads (Fishers Landing Road; Imperial Dam Road; Red Cloud Mine Road) Land Ownership: Urbanization Bureau of Land Management 20% Department of Defense (Yuma Test Range) 43% Hydrology: National Wildlife Refuge (Imperial Mountain) 18% Colorado River Private Land 2% Indian Wash State Trust Land 12% Los Angeles Wash *Note: Linkage extends into California McAllister Wash Yuma Wash Identified Species:

Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater

Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum

Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus

Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis

California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus

Cave Myotis Myotis velifer

Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia

Great Egret Ardea alba

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Linkage 131 Linkage 132

Castl e Do me Mountains – Red Bluff Mou ntain s Tinajas Altas Mountains – Cabeza Prieta – Muggins Mountains Mountains (Linkage 131: Identified Species continued) Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Mountain Lion Felis concolor County: Yuma County: Yuma Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii

pallescens ADOT Engineering District: Yuma Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus ADOT Engineering District: Yuma ADOT Maintenance: Yuma Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii ADOT Maintenance: Yuma ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix Sonoran Pronghorn Antilocapra americana sonoriensis ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix Southwestern Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii extimus AGFD: Region 4 Snowy Egret Egretta thula AGFD: Region 4 Spotted Bat Euderma maculatum BLM: Colorado River District Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea BLM: Colorado River District Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus Congressional District: 7 occidentalis Congressional District: 7 White-faced Ibis Plegadis chihi Yuma Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris yumanensis Council of Government: Yuma Metropolitan Planning Council of Government: Yuma Metropolitan Planning Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Organization Organization Yuman Desert Fringe-toed Lizard Uma notata rufopunctata

FHWA Engineering: FHWA Engineering: A3 Threats: A3

Border Security Legislative District: 24 Military Usage Legislative District: 24 Off Road Usage Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Roads (Down Range Road; 90O Road; North Boundary Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100% Road) Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100% Urbanization Land Ownership: Land Ownership: Department of Defense (Yuma Test Range) 88% Hydrology: Department of Defense National Wildlife Refuge (Kofa) 11% Big Eye Wash (Barry Goldwater Air Force Range) 54% Private Land 1% National Wildlife Refuge 46%

Identified Species: Identified Species: Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus Flat-tailed Horned Lizard Phrynosoma mcallii Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Great E gret Ardea alba Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad Gastrophryne olivacea Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Javelina Tayassu tajacu Least Bittern Ixobrychus exilis Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis

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Linkage 133

Copper Mountains – Cabeza Prieta Mountains Sonoran Desert Ecoregion (Linkage 132: Identified Species continued) Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae County: Yuma (Linkage 133: Identified Species continued) Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Maricopa Leaf-nosed Snake Phyllorhynchus browni lucidus Maricopa Leaf-nosed Snake Phyllorhynchus browni lucidus ADOT Engineering District: Yuma Mexican Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata trivirgata Mexican Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata trivirgata ADOT Maintenance: Yuma Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mountain Lion Felis concolor ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Organ Pipe Shovel-nosed Snake Chionactis palarostris

Organ Pipe Shovel-nosed Snake Chionactis palarostris organica AGFD: Region 4 organica Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii pallescens pallescens BLM: Colorado River District Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Red-back Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti xanthonota Red-back Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti xanthonota Congressional District: 7 Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Sonoran Pronghorn Antilocapra americana sonoriensis Sonoran Pronghorn Antilocapra americana sonoriensis Council of Government: Yuma Metropolitan Planning Underwood’s Bonneted Bat Eumops underwoodi Underwood’s Bonneted Bat Eumops underwoodi Organization Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis FHWA Engineering: A3 Threats: Legislative District: 24 Border Security Threats: Military Usage Border Security Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Off Road Usage Military Usage Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100% Off Road Usage Hydrology: Roads (El Camino del Diablo) Land Ownership: Coyote Wash Department of Defense Hydrology: (Barry Goldwater Air Force Range) 73% Coyote Wash National Wildlife Refuge (Cabeza Prieta) 27% La Jolla Wash Identified Species: Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad Gastrophryne olivacea Javelina Tayassu tajacu Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Photo by Ron Horloff

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Linkage 134 Linkage 135

Cabeza Prieta Mountains – Tule Mountains Sierra Pinta – Cabeza Prieta Mountains Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

County: Yuma (Linkage 134: Identified Species continued) County: Yuma Mountain Lion Felis concolor ADOT Engineering District: Yuma Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus ADOT Engineering District: Yuma ADOT Maintenance: Yuma Organ Pipe Shovel-nosed Snake Chionactis palarostris ADOT Maintenance: Yuma ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix organica ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii

pallescens AGFD: Region 4 AGFD: Region 4 Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Red-back Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti xanthonota BLM: Colorado River District Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii BLM: Colorado River District Sonoran Pr onghorn Antilocapra americana sonoriensis Congressional District: 7 Underwood’s Bonneted Bat Eumops underwoodi Congressional District: 7 Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Council of Government: Yuma Metropolitan Planning Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Council of Government: Yuma Metropolitan Planning Organization Organization Threats: FHWA Engineering: A3 Border Security FHWA Engineering: A3 Off Road Usage Legislative District: 24 Recreation Legislative District: 24 Roads (El Camino del Diablo) Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100% Hydrology: Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100% None identified Land Ownership: Land Ownership: National Wildlife Refuge (Cabeza Prieta) 100% National Wildlife Refuge (Cabeza Prieta) 100%

Identified Species: Identified Species: Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad Gastrophryne olivacea Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad Gastrophryne olivacea Javelina Tayassu tajacu Javelina Tayassu tajacu Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Maricopa Leaf-nosed Snake Phyllorhynchus browni lucidus Maricopa Leaf-nosed Snake Phyllorhynchus browni lucidus Mexican Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata trivirgata Mexican Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata trivirgata

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Linkage 136

Mohawk Mountains/Bryan Mountains – North Sierra Pinta (Linkage 136: Identified Species continued) Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Identified Species (Linkage 135: continued) Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae Mountain Lion Felis concolor Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans County: Yuma Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Maricopa Leaf-nosed Snake Phyllorhynchus browni lucidus

Organ Pipe Shovel-nosed Snake Chionactis palarostris Mexican Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata trivirgata organica ADOT Engineering District: Yuma Mountain Lion Felis concolor Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii ADOT Maintenance: Yuma Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus pallescens ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix Organ Pipe Shovel-nosed Snake Chionactis palarostris Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus organica Red-back Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti xanthonota AGFD: Region 4 Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii pallescens Sonoran Pronghorn Antilocapra americana sonoriensis BLM: Colorado River District Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Underwood’s Bonneted Bat Eumops underwoodi Red-back Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti xanthonota Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Congressional District: 7 Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Sonoran Pronghorn Antilocapra americana so norie nsis Underwood’s Bonneted Bat Eumops underwoodi Council of Government: Yuma Metropolitan Planning Threats: Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Organization Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Border Security Off Road Usage FHWA Engineering: A3 Recreation Threats:

Roads (Christmas Pass Road) Border Security Legislative District: 24 Military Usage Hydrology: Off Road Usage Mohawk Wash Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Recreation Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100% Hydrology: Land Ownership: None identified Department of Defense (Barry Goldwater Air Force Range) 1% National Wildlife Refuge (Cabeza Prieta) 99%

Identified Species: Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad Gastrophryne olivacea Javelina Tayassu tajacu Photo by Robert Suplee Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis

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Linkage 137 Linkage 138

South Sierra Pinta – Papago Well Northern Mohawk Mountains Sky Island Ecoregion Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

County: Pima and Yuma (Linkage 137: Identified Species continued) County: Yuma Mexican Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata trivirgata ADOT Engineering District: Tucson and Yuma Mountain Lion Felis concolor ADOT Engineering District: Yuma ADOT Maintenance: Three Points and Yuma Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus ADOT Maintenance: Yuma ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix and Organ Pipe Shovel-nosed Snake Chionactis palarostris ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix organica Tucson Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii AGFD: Region 4 pallescens AGFD: Region 4 Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Red-back Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti xanthonota BLM: Colorado River District and Phoenix District BLM: Colorado River District and Phoenix District Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Sonoran Pronghorn Antilocapra americana sonoriensis Congressional District: 7 Congressional District: 7 Underwood’s Bonneted Bat Eumops u nderw o odi Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Council of Government: Yuma Metropolitan Planning Council of Government: Pima Association of Governments and Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Organization Yuma metropolitan Planning Organization Threats: FHWA Engineering: A3 FHWA Engineering: A2 and A3 Border Security Off Road Usage Legislative District: 24 Legislative District: 24 and 25 Recreation Roads (El Camino del Diablo) Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100% Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100% Hydrology: Papago Wash Land Ownership: Land Ownership: Department of Defense National Wildlife Refuge (Cabeza Prieta) (Barry Goldwater Air Force Range) 100%

Identified Species: Identified Species: Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad Gastrophryne olivacea Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad Gastrophryne olivacea Javelina Tayassu tajacu Javelina Tayassu tajacu Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Maricopa Leaf-nosed Snake Phyllorhynchus browni lucidus Maricopa Leaf-nosed Snake Phyllorhynchus browni lucidus

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Linkage 139

Mohawk Mountains – Bryan Mountains Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

(Linka ge 138: Identified Species continued) County: Yuma (Linkage 139: Identified Species continued) Mexican Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata trivirgata Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mountain Lion Felis concolor ADOT Engineering District: Yuma Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus ADOT Maintenance: Yuma Organ Pipe Shovel-nosed Snake Chionactis palarostris Organ Pipe Shovel-nosed Snake Chionactis p alaro stris ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix organica organica Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii

Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii pallescens AGFD: Region 4 pallescens Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Red-back Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti xanthonota Red-back Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti xanthonota BLM: Colorado River District Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Sonoran Pronghorn Antilocapra americana sonoriensis Sonoran Pronghorn Antilocapra americana sonoriensis Congressional District: 7 Underwood’s Bonneted Bat Eumops underwoodi Underwood’s Bonneted Bat Eumops underwoodi Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Council of Government: Yuma Metropolitan Planning Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Organization Threats: Threats: FHWA Engineering: A3 Border Security Border Security Off Road Usage Military Usage Legislative District: 24 Recreation Off Road Usage Roads Recreation Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100% Hydrology: Hydrology: None identified None identified Land Ownership: National Wildlife Refuge (Cabeza Prieta) 100%

Identified Species: Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad Gastrophryne olivacea Javelina Tayassu tajacu Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Photo by Brian Kenney Maricopa Leaf-nosed Snake Phyllor hynchus b row ni lucidus Mexican Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata trivirgata

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Linkage 140 Linkage 141

Bryan Mountains – Antelope Hills Granite Mountains – Mohawk Mountains/Bryan Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Mountains

Sonoran Desert Ecoregion County: Identified Species Pima and Yuma (Linkage 140: continued) Mexican Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata trivirgata County: Pima and Yuma ADOT Engineering District: Mountain Lion Felis concolor Tucson and Yuma Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus ADOT Maintenance: Three Points and Yuma ADOT Engineering District: Tucson and Yuma ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson and Organ Pipe Shovel-nosed Snake Chionactis palarostris organica ADOT Maintenance: Three Points and Yuma Phoenix Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix and

pallescens Tucson AGFD: Region 4 Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus

Red-back Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti xanthonota AGFD: Region 4 BLM: Colorado River District and Phoenix District Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii

Sonoran Pronghorn Antilocapra americana sonoriensis BLM: Colorado River District and Phoenix District Congressional District: 7 Underwood’s Bonneted Bat Eumops underwoodi

Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Congressional District: 7 Council of Government: Pima Association of Governments and Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Yuma Metropolitan Planning Organization Council of Government: Pima Association of Governments and Threats: Yuma Metropolitan Planning Organization FHWA Engineering: A2 and A3 Border Security Off Road Usage FHWA Engineering: A2 and A3 Legislative District: Recreation 24 and 25

Legislative District: 24 and 25 Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Hydrology:

Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100% None identified Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types):

Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100% Land Ownership:

National Wildlife Refuge (Cabeza Prieta) 100% Land Ownership:

Department of Defense Identified Species: (Barry Goldwater Air Force Range) 31% Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater National Wildlife Refuge (Cabeza Pri e ta) 69% Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Identified Species: California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctu m Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad Gastrophryne olivacea Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Javelina Tayassu tajacu Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad Gastrophryne olivacea Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Javelina Tayassu tajacu Maricopa Leaf-nosed Snake Phyllorh y nchus b row ni lucidus

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Linkage 142

Granite Mountains – Antelope Hills Sonoran Desert Ecoregion (Linkage 141: Identified Species continued) Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis County: Pima (Linkage 142: Identified Species continued) Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans ADOT Engineering District: Tucson Organ Pipe Shovel-nosed Snake Chionactis palarostris Maricopa Leaf-nosed Snake Phyllorhynchus browni lucidus ADOT Maintenance: Three Points organica Mexican Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata trivirgata ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Mountain Lion Felis concolor pallescens

Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus AGFD: Region 4 Organ Pipe Shovel-nosed Snake Chionactis palarostris Red-back Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti xanthonota organica Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii BLM: Phoenix District Sonoran Pronghorn Antilocapra americana sonoriensis pallescens Underwood’s Bonneted Bat Eumops underwoodi Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Congressional District: 7 Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Red-back Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti xanthonota Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Council of Government: Pima Association of Governments Sonoran Pronghorn Antilocapra americana sonoriensis Threats: Underwood’s Bonneted Bat Eumops underwoodi FHWA Engineering: A2 Border Security Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Off Road Usage Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Legislative District: 25 Recreation

Threats: Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Hydrology: Border Security Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100% San Cristobal Wash Military Usage Off Road Usage Land Ownership: Recreation National Wildlife Refuge (Cabeza Prieta) 100%

Hydrology: Identified Species: San Cristobal Wash Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata g r acia Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad Gastrophryne olivacea Javelina Tayassu tajacu Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Maricopa Leaf-nosed Snake Phyllorhynchus browni lucidus Mexican Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata trivirgata

Mountain Lion Felis concolor

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Linkage 143 Linkage 144

Aguila Mountains – Granite Mountains Growler Mountains – Granite Mountains Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

County: Maricopa, Pima and Yuma (Linkage 143: Identified Species continued) County: Pima Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans ADOT Engineering District: Tucson and Yuma Maricopa Leaf-nosed Snake Phyllorhynchus browni lucidus ADOT Engineering District: Tucson ADOT Maintenance: Gila Bend, Three Points and Yuma Mexican Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata trivirgata ADOT Maintenance: Three Points ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix and Mountain Lion Felis concolor ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Tucson Organ Pipe Shovel-nosed Snake Chionactis palarostris AGFD: Region 4 organica AGFD: Region 4 Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii pallescens BLM: Phoenix District BLM: Phoenix District Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Red-back Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti xanthonota Congressional District: 7 Congressional District: 7 Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Sonoran Pronghorn Antilocapra americana sonoriensis Council of Government: Pima Association of Governments Council of Government: Maricopa Association of Governments, Underwood’s Bonneted Bat Eumops underwoodi Pima Association of Governments and Yuma Metropolitan Planning Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea FHWA Engineering: A2 Organization Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Legislative District: 25 FHWA Engineering: A2 and A3 Threats: Border Security Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Legislative District: 24 and 25 Military Usage Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100% Off Road Usage Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Roads Land Ownership: Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100% National Wildlife Refuge (Cabeza Prieta) 100% Hydrology: Land Ownership: Growler Wash Identified Species: Department of Defense Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater (Barry Goldwater Air Force Range) 100% Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Identified Species: California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad Gastrophryne olivacea Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Javelina Tayassu tajacu Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad Gastrophryne olivacea Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Javelina Tayassu tajacu Maricopa Leaf-nosed Snake Phyllorhynchus browni lucidus Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Mexican Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata trivirgata Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae Mountain Lion Felis concolor

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Linkage 145

Bates Mountains/Cipriano Hills – Agua Dulce Mountains/Quitobaquito Hills (Linkage 145: Identified Species continued) Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Identified Species (Linkage 144: continued) Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Maricopa Leaf-nosed Snake Phyllorhynchus browni lucidus County: Pima Organ Pipe Shovel-nosed Snake Chionactis palarostris Mexican Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata trivirgata

organica Mountain Lion Felis concolor Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii ADOT Engineering District: Tucson Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus pallescens ADOT Maintenance: Three Points Organ Pipe Shovel-nosed Snake Chionactis palarostris Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson organica Red-back Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti xanthonota Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii AGFD: Region 4 pallescens Sonoran Pronghorn Antilocapra americana sonoriensis Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Underwood’s Bonneted Bat Eumops underwoodi BLM: Phoenix District Red-back Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti xanthonota Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Congressional District: 7 Sonoran Pronghorn Antilocapra americana sonoriensis Underwood’s Bonneted Bat Eumops underwoodi Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Threats: Council of Government: Pima Association of Governments Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Border Security Military Usage FHWA Engineering: A2 Off Road Usage Threats:

Roads Border Security Recreation Legislative District: 25 Off Road Usage Recreation Hydrology: Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Roads Growler Wash AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 33% Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 67% Hydrology: San Cristobal Wash Land Ownership: National Park Service (Organ Pipe) 84% National Wildlife Refuge (Cabeza Prieta) 16%

Identified Species: Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Photo by Bill Broyles Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad Gastrophryne olivacea Javelina Tayassu tajacu Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae Photo by Jack Dykinga

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Linkage 146 Linkage 147

Childs Mountain – Growler Mountains Growler Mountains – Bates Mountains Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

County: Maricopa and Pima (Linkage 146: Identified Species continued) County: Pima Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus ADOT Engineering District: Tucson and Yuma Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad Gastrophryne olivacea ADOT Engineering District: Tucson ADOT Maintenance: Gila Bend and Three Points Javelina Tayassu tajacu ADOT Maintenance: Three Points ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix and Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae Tucson Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans AGFD: Region 4 Maricopa Leaf-nosed Snake Phyllorhynchus browni lucidus AGFD: Region 4 Mexican Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata trivirgata Mountain Lion Felis concolor BLM: Phoenix District BLM: Phoenix District Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Organ Pipe Shovel-nosed Snake Chionactis palarostris Congressional District: 7 Congressional District: 7 organica Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Council of Government: Pima Association of Governments Council of Government: Maricopa Association of Governments pallescens and Pima Association of Governments Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus FHWA Engineering: A2 Red-back Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti xanthonota FHWA Engineering: A2 and A3 Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Legislative District: 25 Sonoran Pronghorn Antilocapra americana sonoriensis Legislative District: 25 Underwood’s Bonneted Bat Eumops underwoodi Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 77% Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 23% Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 100% Threats: Land Ownership: Land Ownership: Border Security Bureau of Land Management <1% Department of Defense Military Usage National Park Service (Organ Pipe) 88% (Barry Goldwater Air Force Range) 4% Off Road Usage National Wildlife Refuge (Cabeza Prieta) 3% National Wildlife Refuge (Cabeza Prieta) 96% Recreation State Trust Land 9% Roads Identified Species: Identified Species: Hydrology: Ajo Mountain Whipsnake Masticophis bilineatus lineolatus Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Daniels Arroyo Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotis California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Bobcat Lynx rufus Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-owl Glaucidium brasilianum Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus cactorum Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad Gastrophryne olivacea Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Javelina Tayassu tajacu Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae

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Linkage 148

Round Butte – Javelina Mountain Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

(Linkage 147: Identified Species continued) County: Maricopa (Linkage 148: Identified Species continued) Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Maricopa Leaf-nosed Snake Phyllorhynchus browni lucidus ADOT Engineering District: Yuma Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae Mexican Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata trivirgata ADOT Maintenance: Gila Bend Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Mountain Lion Felis concolor ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix Maricopa Leaf-nosed Snake Phyllorhynchus browni lucidus Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Mexican Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata trivirgata

Organ Pipe Shovel-nosed Snake Chionactis palarostris Mountain Lion Felis concolor AGFD: Region 4 organica Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Organ Pipe Shovel-nosed Snake Chionactis palarostris pallescens BLM: Phoenix District organica Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Red-back Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti xanthonota Congressional District: 7 pallescens Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Sonoran Pronghorn Antilocapra americana sonoriensis Council of Government: Maricopa Association of Governments Red-back Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti xanthonota Underwood’s Bonneted Bat Eumops underwoodi Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea FHWA Engineering: A3 Sonoran Pronghorn Antilocapra americana sonoriensis Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Underwood’s Bonneted Bat Eumops underwoodi Legislative District: 25 Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Threats: Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Border Security Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Off Road Usage AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 100% Threats: Recreation Border Security Roads (Bates Well Road) Land Ownership: Military Usage Department of Defense Off Road Usage Hydrology: (Barry Goldwater Air Force Range) 100% Roads Cherioni Wash Cuerda de Lena Identified Species: Hydrology: Growler Wash Ajo Mountain Whipsnake Masticophis bilineatus lineolatus Sand Tank Wash Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotis Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Bobcat Lynx rufus Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-owl Glaucidium brasilianum cactorum California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad Gastrophryne olivacea Javelina Tayassu tajacu

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Sand Tank Mountains – Sauceda Mountains Little Table Top – Vekol Mountains Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Sonoran Desert Ecoregion

County: Maricopa (Linkage 149: Identified Species continued) County: Pinal Javelina Tayassu tajacu ADOT Engineering District: Yuma Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis ADOT Engineering District: Tucson ADOT Maintenance: Gila Bend Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae ADOT Maintenance: Casa Grande ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Tucson Maricopa Leaf-nosed Snake Phyllorhynchus browni lucidus

Mexican Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata trivirgata AGFD: Region 4 and Region 5 AGFD: Region 4 and Region 5 Mountain Lion Felis concolor Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus BLM: Phoenix District Organ Pipe Shovel-nosed Snake Chionactis palarostris BLM: Phoenix District organica Congressional District: 7 Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Congressional District: 7 pallescens Council of Government: Maricopa Association of Governments Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Council of Government: Central Arizona Council of Governments Red-back Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti xanthonota FHWA Engineering: A3 Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii FHWA Engineering: A2 Sonoran Pronghorn Antilocapra americana sonoriensis Legislative District: 25 Underwood’s Bonneted Bat Eumops underwoodi Legislative District: 25 Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 100% AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 100% Threats: Land Ownership: Border Security Land Ownership: Department of Defense Grazing Bureau of Land Management 20% (Barry Goldwater Air Force Range) 70% Military Usage Tribal Land (Tohono O’odham) 80% Tribal Land (Tohono O’odham) 30% Off Road Usage Roads Identified Species:

Identified Species: Ajo Mountain Whipsnake Masticophis bilineatus lineolatus Hydrology: Ajo Mountain Whipsnake Masticophis bilineatus lineolatus Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Sauceda Wash Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotis Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotis Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis Bobcat Lynx rufus Bobcat Lynx rufus Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-owl Glaucidium brasilianum Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-owl Glaucidium brasilianum cactorum cactorum California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus Giant Spotted Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti stictogrammus Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad Gastrophryne olivacea Great Plains Narrow-mouthed Toad Gastrophryne olivacea Javelina Tayassu tajacu

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Gila/Salt River Corridor Granite Reef Dam – Gillespie Dam (Linkage 151: Identified Species continued) Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Identified Species (Linkage 150: continued) California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Desert Pupfish Cyprinodon macularius County: Maricopa Lesser Long-nosed Bat Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae Desert Sucker Catostomus clarki

Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Least Bittern Ixobrychus exilis Maricopa Leaf-nosed Snake Phyllorhynchus browni lucidus ADOT Engineering District: Phoenix Maintenance and Yuma Lowland Leopard Frog Rana yavapaiensis Mexican Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata trivirgata ADOT Maintenance: Gila Bend, Phoenix Avondale, Phoenix Roundtail Chub Gila robusta Mountain Lion Felis concolor Durango, Phoenix East Metro and Phoenix Mesa Sonora Sucker Catostomus insignis Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Organ Pipe Shovel-nosed Snake Chionactis palarostris Southwestern Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii extimus organica AGFD: Region 4 and Region 6 Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Western Yellow Bat Lasiurus xanthinus pallescens BLM: Phoenix District Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus occidentalis Red-back Whiptail Aspidoscelis burti xanthonota Congressional District: 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7 Yuma Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris yumanensis Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii Sonoran Pronghorn Antilocapra americana sonoriensis Council of Government: Maricopa Association of Governments Threats: Underwood’s Bonneted Bat Eumops underwoodi Canals (Arizona Canal; Arlington Canal; Branch San Western Burrowing Owl Athene cunicularia hypugaea Francisco Canal; Buckeye Canal; Central Arizona FHWA Engineering: A1 and A3 Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Project Canal; Consolidated Canal; Grand Canal;

Hayden Canal; Roosevelt Canal; San Francisco Threats: Legislative District: 4, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23 and 25 Canal; South Extension Canal; Southern Canal; St. Border Security Johns Canal; Tempe Canal) Grazing Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Granite Reef Dam Off Road Usage AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 4% Highways (I 10; I 17; SR 51; SR 85; SR 87; SR 101; SR 143; Recreation Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 96% SR 153; SR 202) Roads Railroad Land Ownership: Recreation Hydrology: Bureau of Land Management 11% Urbanization Bitter Well Wash Bureau of Reclamation 2% Game and Fish Land 4% Hydrology: Parks and Recreation 2% Agua Fria River Arizona Canal Private Land 57% Arlington Canal State Trust Land 4% Branch San Francisco Canal Tribal Land (Gila River) 18% Buckeye Canal USDA Forest Service (Tonto) 2% Central Arizona Project Canal Consolidated Canal Identified Species: Corgett Wash Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Gila River Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus Grand Canal Black-bellied Whistling-duck Dendrocygna autumnalis Granite Reef Dam Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-owl Glaucidium brasilianum Hayden Canal cactorum

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Central Arizona Project Canal Sky Island Ecoregion (Linkage151: Hydrology continued) Sonoran Desert Ecoregion Hassayampa River (Linkage152: continued) Indian Bend Wash County: La Paz, Maricopa, Pima and Pinal Identified Species: Luke Wash Arizona Chuckwalla Sauromalus ater Lum Wash ADOT Engineering District: Phoenix Maintenance and Yuma Arizona Toad Bufo microscaphus Roosevelt Canal ADOT Maintenance: Mesa and Quartzsite Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus Salt River ADOT Natural Resources Management Section: Phoenix, Banded Gila Monster Heloderma suspectum cinctum San Francisco Canal Big Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops macrotus Prescott and Tucson South Extension Canal Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis

Southern Canal Bobcat Lynx rufus AGFD: Region 4, Region 5 and Region 6 St. Johns Canal Bonytail Gila elegans Tempe Canal Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy Owl Glaucidium brasilianum Waterman Wash BLM: Colorado River District, Gila District and Phoenix District cactorum California Leaf-nosed Bat Macrotus californicus Congressional District: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Clark’s Grebe Aechmophorus clarkii Council of Government: Central Arizona Council of Governments, Desert Rosy Boa Charina trivirgata gracia Maricopa Association of Governments, Pima Association of Desert Sucker Catostomus clarki Governments and Western Arizona Council of Governments Great Egret Ardea alba Greater Western Mastiff Bat Eumops perotis californicus FHWA Engineering: A1 and A3 Javelina Tayassu tajacu Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis Legislative District: 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 30 Least Bittern Ixobrychus exilis Longfin Dace Agosia chrysogaster Biotic Communities (Vegetation Types): Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans AZ Upland Sonoran Desertscrub 23% Maricopa Leaf-nosed Snake Phyllorhynchus browni lucidus Lower Colorado River Sonoran Desertscrub 70% Mountain Lion Felis concolor Semidesert Grassland 7% Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Pale Townsend’s Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii Land Ownership: pallescens Pocketed Free-tailed Bat Nyctinomops femorosaccus Bureau of Land Management 25% Razorback Sucker Xyrauchen texanus Bureau of Reclamation 4% Roundtail Chub Gila robusta County Land 0.2% Sonora Sucker Catostomus insignis Department of Defense 0.5% Sonoran Desert Tortoise Gopherus agassizii National Park Service (Saguaro) 0.3% Southwestern Willow Flycatcher Empidonax traillii extimus National Wildlife Refuge (Havasu) 0.1% Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo Coccyzus americanus Parks and Recreation 0.4% occidentalis Private Land 35.2% Yellow-nosed Cotton Rat Sigmodon ochrognathus State Trust Land 29% Yuma Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris yumanensis Tribal Land (Pascau Yaqui; Salt River; San Xavier) 5.1% Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis USDA Forest Service (Tonto) 0.2%

Photo by Drew Stokes

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(Linkage152: continued) Hydrology Threats: (Linkage152: continued) Weir Wash Canals (Central Arizona Project Canal; Arizona Canal; Winters Wash Beardsley Canal)

Granite Reef Dam Highway (I 10; I 17; SR 51; SR 74; SR 79; SR 86; SR 87; SR 101; SR 287; US 60) Railroad Recreation Urbanization

Hydrology:

Agua Fria River Arizona Canal Beardsley Canal Big Granite Wash Bill Williams River Bootlegger Wash Brawley Wash Calcite Wash CAP Canal Cave Creek

Centennial Wash Cunningham Wash Daggs Wash Deadman Wash Fourmile Wash Gila River Guild Wash Hassayampa River Jackrabbit Wash Mineral Wash New River Old Camp Wash Osborne Wash Queen Creek Salt River Santa Cruz River Skunk Creek Tiger Wash Trilby Wash Wagner Wash Weekes Wash