Ability to Respond Total:12 / 25Ability to Respond = ( Ease of Response + Tools in Place )
Confidence:High
Confidence Notes:
Impact
Spread
Notes
Score
Spread Rate
Reproductive success and expansion continues in California. Up to 25 per square kilometer. Identified in over 300 sites across California.
3
Spread Amount
Reproduction can occur every year with litter size up to 9 pups. Sightings extensive in CA.
3
Damage
Notes
Score
Ecological
Preys on and outcompetes with endangered kit fox, clapper rails and least terns, upland game species and lambs.
4
Agricultural
3
Infrastructure
0
Cultural
0
Health
0
Benefit
Notes
Score
Ecological
0
Agricultural
0
Infrastructure
0
Cultural
Under Fish & Game Code Section 4000, may be hunted (usually for fur). Historically raised on ~125 California fur farms.
1
Health
0
Total
12
Ability to Respond
Ease of Response
Notes
Score
Detection
Rarely seen; can be detected with Approrpiate tracking techniques - tracks, camera traps on scent, .
3
Control
Foxes now may be hunted as a non-game animal, in accordance with FGC Section 4000 are trapping, bow and arrow, poison under permit, and dogs.
2
Tools in Place
Notes
Score
Entry
DFG regulates as a non-game animal.
3
Control
3
Outreach
Very little in-state publicity on ecologic impacts, partly due to negative public opinion on current capture programs to protect endangered species, which managing resource agencies conduct as unobstrusively as possible.
