| Alamo
Lake Wildlife Area |
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| Alamo Lake Wildlife Area offers a special opportunity to experience the solitude of the desert for recreation, wildlife observation, or just the pleasure of being outdoors. |
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| Recreational
Opportunities |
 Alamo
Lake State Park and the Arizona Game and Fish
Department provide support services and facilities
for safe and enjoyable public recreation,
including camping, boating, fishing, hunting,
and wildlife observation. The wildlife area
also contains numerous sites of cultural and
archeological significance.
Camping:
Alamo Lake State Park has a variety of facilities,
including camp sites, telephone, water,
sewer,
and electric services. The Alamo
Lake State Park Web site offers a park
map and information about camping, weather
and other topics.
Boating:
Alamo Lake State Park has boat launch facilities,
a fish cleaning station, group and individual
picnic areas, and a privately operated concession/general
store.
Fishing:
Alamo Lake is well known as one of the outstanding
bass fisheries in Arizona.
Hunting:
Alamo Lake Wildlife Area is located in Game
Management Units 16A
and 44A.
Wildlife observation:
The area's lush wetland and streamside vegetation
attracts a wide range of wildlife species,
providing excellent opportunities for wildlife
viewing.
Archeological
sites: The wildlife
area contains numerous sites of cultural and
archeological significance.
CAUTION:
Temperatures vary from 20°F in December
and January to 118°F in June and July.
Summer minimums are between 60-80°F. Winter
maximums are in the mid-60s.
Restrictions:
| a. |
Wood collecting
limited to dead and down material, for
on-site noncommercial use only. |
| b. |
Overnight public camping
in the wildlife area outside of Alamo
State Park allowed for no more than
14 days within a 45-day period. |
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Motorized vehicle travel
permitted on designated roads, on designated
trails, or in designated areas only. |
| d. |
Open to hunting in season. |
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| Location |
Alamo Lake
Wildlife Area is located in northeast La Paz
County and southeast Mohave County, about
35 miles north of Wenden.
Directions:
Take Alamo Dam Road north from Wenden, or
Alamo Road west from U.S. Route 93 near Congress.
- View a map of this location |
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| Wildlife |
 Alamo
Lake Wildlife Area provides riparian (streamside),
wetland, and aquatic habitats for a diversity
of wildlife species.
Birds:
Waterfowl and shorebirds that frequent the
area include ducks, geese and white pelicans.
Other birds that can be found here include
osprey and many species of migratory songbirds.
Mammals:
Mammals that frequent the area include mule
deer, javelina, bobcats and even wild burros.
Various other game and nongame wildlife, including
fishes and amphibians can be found as well.
| Special
Status Species -
Species
Abstracts | Status
Codes |
| Common
Name |
Scientific
Name |
Status |
| Amphibians
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| Arizona
toad |
Bufo microscaphus |
S |
| Lowland
leopard frog |
Rana yavapaiensis |
SC,
S, WSC |
| Birds |
| American
peregrine falcon |
Falco peregrinus anatum |
SC,
S, WSC |
| Bald
eagle |
Haliaeetus leucocephalus |
LT,
S, WSC |
| Southwestern
willow flycatcher |
Empidonax traillii extimus |
LE,
S, WSC |
| Western
yellow-billed cuckoo |
Coccyzus americanus occidentalis |
C,
S, WSC |
| Fish |
| Desert
pupfish |
Cyprinodon macularius |
LE,
WSC |
| Gila
topminnow |
Poeciliopsis o. occidentalis |
LE,
WSC |
| Mammals |
| California
leaf-nosed bat |
Macrotus californicus |
SC,
S1, WSC |
| Pocketed
free-tailed bat |
Nyctinomops femorosaccus |
S1 |
| Plants
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| Mohave
thistle |
Cirsium mohavense |
S1 |
| Reptiles
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| Banded
Gila monster |
Heloderma suspectum cinctum |
SC,
P |
| Sonoran
desert tortoise |
Gopherus agassizii |
SC,
WSC |
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| Area
Description |
Within the boundaries of the Alamo Lake Wildlife Area are Alamo Lake State Park, Alamo Lake, and Alamo Dam; a portion of the Bill Williams River below Alamo Dam; and portions of the Bill Williams, Big Sandy, and Santa Maria rivers above Alamo Lake.
Elevations range from 950 feet on the Bill Williams River below Alamo Dam to approximately 1,400 feet. The high water level of Alamo Lake is within the boundaries of the wildlife area. The gorge created by the Bill Williams River downstream from the dam is up to 500 feet deep.
Precipitation normally ranges from five inches to eight inches per year, falling
from
mid-July through October and from December through April.
Open water on the lake occupies about 2,735 acres (12 percent) of the 22,855 acres comprising the wildlife area, while riparian and wetland habitat covers about 4,000 acres (18 percent). The remaining 16,000 acres (70 percent) are desert upland habitat.
Plant Life
The vegetation in the wildlife area consists
of Sonoran desertscrub and desert riparian
plants.
The upland areas of Sonoran desertscrub sustain:
· littleleaf paloverde (Cercidium microphyllum)
· saguaro (Carnegia gigantea)
· creosotebush (Larrea tridentata)
· ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens)
· crucifixion thorn (Canotia holacantha)
· ironwood (Olneya tesota), white bursage
(Ambrosia dumosa)
· brittlebush (Encelia farinosa)
Desert riparian habitat consists of:
· saltcedar (Tamarix sp.)
· saltbush (Atriplex canescens)
· arrowweed (Pluchia sericea)
· velvet mesquite (Prosopis juliflora var.
velutina)
· seepwillow (Baccharis glutinosa)
· Fremont cottonwood (Populus fremontii)
· Goodding willow (Salix gooddingii)
· cattail (Typha spp.), rushes (Juncus spp.)
and sedges (Scirp sp.) |
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| Management
Objectives and Goals |
Management emphasis for Alamo Lake Wildlife Area is to provide for the protection, restoration, management and enhancement of wildlife habitat and associated wildlife populations. This management philosophy includes allowing for nonconflicting wildlife-associated recreation and other agency and public uses.
Alamo Lake State Park is managed for the development and use of public recreation facilities consistent with preservation and management of those wildlife and habitat values found at Alamo Lake and the Alamo Lake Wildlife Area.
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