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Rest-Site Use and the Apparent Rarity of an Ozark Population of Plains Spotted Skunk (Spilogale putorius interrupta)

Summer D. Higdon1,* and Matthew Gompper1,2

1School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211. 2Current address - Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Ecology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003. *Corresponding author.

Southeastern Naturalist, Volume 19, Issue 1 (2020): 74–89

Abstract
Spilogale putorius interrupta (Plains Spotted Skunk) experienced range-wide declines beginning in the 1940s, and knowledge of population persistence and basic habitat requirements of the taxon remains limited. We surveyed for a population of the subspecies in the forested Ozark region of Arkansas. We deployed a dense camera-trap grid (>8000 trap-nights across a 24,611-ha study area) and recorded individuals on 6 occasions at 4 sites; their detection rate was amongst the lowest of all detected species. There were no observed differences between occupied and unoccupied sites. We captured and deployed radio-collars on 2 individuals that were tracked to 12 rest sites. Groundcover was sparse at rest sites, perhaps due to use of rocky outcrops by both individuals.

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