Arizona's Wildlife Linkages Assessment Document

The assessment document and map are the initial efforts to identify potential linkage zones that are important to Arizona’s wildlife and natural ecosystems. This is only the first step in a continuing process of defining critical habitat connectivity areas.

This non-binding document and map will serve as an informational resource to planners and engineers, providing suggestions for the incorporation of these linkage zones into their management planning to address wildlife connectivity at an early stage of the process.

If considerations for wildlife connectivity can be integrated into regional planning and projects early in the process, the linkage areas (or some portion of them) have the potential to be maintained or conserved during this time of growth and development.

Due to the large file size of this study, it is divided up into the following Adobe PDF segments:

Arizona's Wildlife Linkages Assessment, 14.7 MB
Section I - Introduction, 947 KB
Section II - Arizona Wildlife Linkages Workgroup, 218 KB
Section III - Arizona's Missing Linkages Workshop, 13.4 MB
Section IV - Arizona's Wildlife Linkages Mapping, 102 KB
Section V - Arizona's Wildlife Linkages Prioritization, 901 KB
Section VI - Arizona's Wildlife Linkages
	Figure 6-1 Arizona's Wildlife Linkages, 9.69 MB
	Figure 6-2 Arizona's Wildlife Linkages Across Habitat Blocks, 9.36 MB
	Figure 6-3 Arizona's Fracture Zones, 9.05 MB
	Figure 6-4 Arizona's Biotic Communities, 10.3 MB
	Figure 6-5 Land Ownership, 10.8 MB
	Figure 6-6 Tribal Nations, 10.3 MB
	Figure 6-7 USDA Forest Service, 10.3 MB
	Figure 6-8 Department of Defense, 10.2 MB
	Figure 6-9 Arizona's Highway System with County Boundaries, 10.2 MB
	Figure 6-10 ADOT Engineering Districts, 10.0 MB
	Figure 6-11 ADOT Maintenance Districts, 10.4 MB
	Figure 6-12 ADOT Natural Resources Management Group, 9.88 MB
	Figure 6-13 Arizona Game and Fish Department, 10.1 MB
	Figure 6-14 Bureau of Land Management Districts, 10.0 MB
	Figure 6-15 Bureau of Land Management Field Offices, 10.0 MB
	Figure 6-16 Congressional Districts, 10.1 MB
	Figure 6-17 Council of Governments, 10.1 MB
	Figure 6-18 Federal Highway Administration Engineering Districts, 9.88 MB
	Figure 6-19 Legislative Districts, 10.1 MB
Section VII - Potential Linkage Zones, 8.93 MB
Section VIII - Riparian Habitat Linkage Zones:
	Figure 8-2 Riparian Habitat Linkage Zones, 10.7 MB
	Figure 8-3 Perennial Waters, 11.4 MB
	Figure 8-6 Surface Water Basins, 10.3 MB
	Figure 8-7 Unique Waters, 9.43 MB
	Figure 8-8 Wild and Scenic Rivers, 10.2 MB
	Figure 8-9 Impaired Waters, 10.0 MB
Section IX - Future Directions, 514 KB
Section X - Connectivity Related Projects, 1.3 MB
Section XI - Contributor's Connectivity Efforts, 208 KB
Section XII - Sources for Connectivity Resolution, 1.35 MB
Appendix A - Linkage Data Sheet, 436 KB
Appendix B - Workshop Participants, 318 KB
References, 509 KB

Copies of this document are available on CD.  Please send requests to arizonalinkages@azdot.gov

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