Mexican Spotted Owls and Fire, Appendix B:  Individual Territory Summaries and Maps

Burned Territories

The Scott Able territory (MT #0802061) is located on the Lincoln National Forest south of Cloudcroft, NM. The original territory size is 189 hectares (466 acres) and the addition of our 1-km radius circle increased our survey area to 343 ha (849 ac). The original territory ranges in elevation from 2,359 - 2,658 meters (7,739 - 8,720 feet) and lies predominately on west-facing slopes, with 42% of the territory having an aspect between 45 - 135 . The average slope over the territory is 18.7 . The Scott Able territory was paired with the unburned Jeffers territory located approximately 8 kilometers to the east.

Along with the Circle Cross and Bridge territories, the Scott Able territory was burned by the Bridge fire in 1994. We had 54 habitat survey points within this original territory boundary and 96% of these showed no evidence of recent fire. 4% showed only evidence of ground fire, and no points showed any sign of canopy or complete stand-replacement burn. 0% of the survey points were inaccessible or otherwise not surveyed.

Prior to the fire, 2% of the territory had a Pine cover type, 2% had a mixture of Pine and Oak, and 96% had a Mixed-Conifer cover type. 0% was unknown.