Tech Notes
Tech Notes
Modeling the Impacts of Climate Change on Birds and Vegetation on Military Lands (Legacy 10-465) (PDF)
The Tracer Ignition Minimization (TIM) Tool (Legacy 10-374) (PDF)
Landscape-Level Habitat Associations and Phylogenetics of Desert Tortoises on Southwestern Arizona Military Ranges Managed by the Army, Air Force, and Marines (Legacy 09-385) (PDF)
Given the possibility of future ESA listing and the challenges that such a decision would impose upon the Department of Defense (DoD), it is prudent to understand the distribution of desert tortoises on military ranges within the Sonoran Desert so that appropriate management decisions can be made to reduce conflicts while maintaining the military readiness mission. This Technical Note details a project that developed a landscape-level predictive habitat model for desert tortoises inhabiting the Yuma Proving Ground and Barry M. Goldwater Range in southwestern Arizona and characterized the phylogenetic grouping of desert tortoises inhabiting these DoD managed lands.