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Spotlight line #5 
Years survey conducted 
Fig. 16. Number of raccoons documented for each year 
spotlight surveys were conducted on line #5. No surveys 
were conducted in 1994 and 1995. 
Spotlight line #6 
1990 91 93 96 
Years survey conducted 
Fig. 17. Number of raccoons documented for each year 
spotlight surveys were conducted on line #6. No surveys 
w-ere conducted in 1992, 1994, and 1995. 
Spotlight lines #1,2,3,4,5, and 6 
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197879 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 96 
Years survey conducted 
Fig. 18, Average number of raccoons documented for each year spotlight surveys were 
conducted on line #1, 2 ,3, 4, 5, and 6. No surveys %vere conducted in 1980, 1994, and 
1995. 
have also proven useful for some smaller mammal spe¬ 
cies such as brown hares (Lepus capensis) (Barnes and 
Tapper, 1985). In areas where spotlight survey routes 
overlapped with trapping transects, spotlight surveys sug¬ 
gested higher relative abundances (of four species de¬ 
tected by both methods: opossums, raccoons, striped 
skunks, and ringtails) in nine of the comparisons (Table 
8). Live-trapping data also show ed higher relative abun- 
