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a document to distribute to the interested public. The <br />• Division of Wildlife has furnished an inventory of Delta <br />County in 1973. This is included as Appendix IV. <br />Some small mammals are important as fur bearers, pests, <br />or game species. <br />The bobcat, red fox, mink, long-tailed weasel, ermine, <br />beaver, and muskrats, are all trapped for fur to some <br />degree. Bobcats are scattered throughout the unit, usually <br />in the rocky, mountainous zones. The other species are <br />found more often along the permanent water courses of the <br />unit. Beaver are associated with the poplar, aspen, birch, <br />alder, and conifer mixed types where water supply is avail- <br />able. They occur mostly in upper portions of the planning <br />unit on the Cow Creek and Leroux Creek drainages. Else- <br />where outside the planning unit they occur in large enough <br />numbers to be trapped: such as in Big Robinson, Little <br />Robinson, Coal, Coal Mesa, Cow Creek, Minnesota, West <br />Muddy Creeks. <br />Population and harvest information is unavailable for <br />these species. <br />Coyotes, bobcats, foxes, and raccoons are hunted for <br />sport with hounds or with predator calls. <br />Less common animals of the unit are badgers and river <br />otters, the latter being on the Colorado State endangered <br />species list. No recent otter observations have been <br />made in the planning unit. There have also been unsub- <br />stantiated reports of wolves, martens, and wolverines in <br />the more isolated areas. Wolf and wolverines are also <br />considered endangered species by Colorado Division of <br />Wildlife. <br />• NF-WL-III-14 4/76 RWM <br />