Arizona
Game and Fish Department related reports, plans
and policies
Kofa desert bighorn sheep
policies:
- Revised May 2010! Kofa Mountains Complex Adaptive Predation Managemetn Plan, AZGFD, May 2010 [pdf, 2.29Mb]
- Plan updated, see plan dated May 2010
Kofa Mountains Complex Predation Management
Plan, AZGFD, May 2007 [pdf,
5.8mb]
- Joint Investigative Report and Recommendations
for the Kofa Bighorn Sheep Herd, AZGFD &
Kofa NWR, April 2007 [pdf,
1.83Mb]
- AZGFD Department Policy A2.31 Predation
Management, Sept. 2001 [pdf,
30kb]
Other Arizona bighorn sheep
and mountain lion management polices:
- Black Mountains Predation Management Plan,
AZGFD, April 2006 [pdf,
238kb]
- Black Mountains Bighorn Sheep Management
Plan -- DRAFT, AZGFD, March 2007 [pdf,
2.47Mb]
Additional AZGFD presentations,
research and reports:
- NEW! AZGFD
letter to USFWS supporting "Proposed
Action Alternative B" with recommended
changes on draft environmental assessment,
Sept. 25, 2009. [pdf,
365kb]
- NEW! AZGFD
public educational seminar and webcast on
bighorn sheep, mountain lions and management
issues, Sept. 23, 2009
- PDF copy of the presentions of the speakers
[pdf,
14Mb]
- Watch the video of the recorded event
[Click
Here]
- Commission meeting PowerPoint presention
on Kofa bighorn sheep herd and USFWS EA status
by AZGFD Region IV, Aug. 2009 [pdf,
11.92Mb]
- HCM 2008, A Concurrent Memorial urging the
United States Congress to take immediate action
to allow the Arizona Game and Fish Commission
to recover the Kofa National Wildlife Rrefuge
desert bighorn sheep population, passed April
12, 2007 [pdf,
33kb]
- AZGFD comments on Draft EIS of proposed
Devers-Palo Verde transmission line, June
2006 [pdf,
10kb]
Links to AZGFD Fact Sheets:
Other states wildlife agencies
bighorn sheep and/or predator management plans
and policies
California:
- Final Recovery Plan for the Sierra Nevada
Bighorn Sheep, USFWS, Sept. 2007 [pdf,
1.95Mb]
Montana:
- Montana Bighorn SheepManagement Plan,
November 2009 [pdf,
238kb]
Nevada:
- Nevada
Predation Management Plan FY2008, Nevada Department
of Wildlife, June 2008 [pdf,
539kb]
- Nevada Bighorn Sheep
Management Plan, Nevada Department
of Wildlife, Oct. 2001 [pdf,
1.82mb]
New Mexico:
- Long Range
Plan for the Management of Rocky Mountain
Bighorn Sheep in New Mexico 2005-2014, New
Mexico Department of Game and Fish, 2005 [pdf,
208kb]
- Fra Cristobal
Desert Bighorn Sheep Management Memorandum
2006-2011, New Mexico Department of Game and
Fish, 2005 [pdf,
43kb]
- Plan for the Recovery
of Desert Bighorn Sheep in New Mexico 2003-2013,
New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, August
2003 [pdf,
786kb]
Oregon:
- 2006 Oregon Cougar Management
Plan, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife,
April 2006 [pdf,
2.70Mb]
Utah:
- Utah
Cougar Management Plan, Utah Division
of Wildlife Resources, version 2.0, August 2009,
[pdf,
670kb]
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
and Refuge reference materials
Kofa National Wildlife Refuge,
desert bighorn sheep related issues:
- New! Final Environmental Assessment: Limiting Mountain Lion Predation on Desert Bighorn Sheep on the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, December 2009, approved May 21, 2010 [pdf, 728kb], read the news release
- USFWS High Tank #3 Categorical Exclusion, Planning and Decision, March 2, 2010 [pdf, 2.94Mb]
- USFWS Draft Environmental Assesment for
Limiting Mountain Lion Predation on Desert
Bighorn Sheep on the Kofa National Wildlife
Refuge, Aug. 4, 2009 [pdf,
636kb]
- USFWS Extension of Scoping Period for the
Kofa National Wildlife Refuge Mountain Lion
Management Plan and Environmental Assessment,
May 2008 [pdf,
43kb]
- USFWS Public Scoping Letter for Mountain
Lion Management on the Kofa National Wildlife
Refuge, April 2008 [pdf,
436kb]
- Joint Investigative Report and Recommendations
for the Kofa Bighorn Sheep Herd, AZGFD &
Kofa NWR, April 2007 [pdf,
1.83Mb]
- Capturing and Monitoring Wildlife and Transporting
Water and Equipment, and the Installation
of Evaporative Covers and Measuring Devices
on Water Sources in Wilderness - Categorical
Exclusion, Minimum Resource Analysis, and
Minimum Tools Analysis, USFWS, June
2007 [pdf,
108kb]
- Yaqui and McPherson Tanks Redevelopment
Projects Categorical Exclusion, Minimum Resource
Analysis, and Minimum Tools Analysis, and
Cultural Resources Clearance, USFWS, May 2007
[pdf,
106kb]
- Kofa National Wildlife Refuge & Wilderness
New Water Mountains Wilderness Management
Plan and Environmental Assessment, October,
1996 [pdf,
8.60Mb]
Other state federal bighorn
sheep recover plans and information:
- Final Recovery Plan for the Sierra Nevada
Bighorn Sheep, USFWS, September 2007 [pdf,
1.95Mb]
- Mountain Lion Management to Protect the
State Endangered Desert Bighorn Sheep, New
Mexico Final Environmental Assessment, USFWS,
September 2002 [pdf,
850kb]
- Recovery Plan for Bighorn Sheep in the Peninsular
Ranges, California, October 2000 [pdf,
21.78Mb]
U.S. Department of
Interior Acts and Protections
Additional reference
material
- Genomic Ancestry of the American Puma, Melanie
Culver et.al., 2000 [pdf,
kb]
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