Arizona Small Game Reserve - Rio Ajo Park

[blazing mauve]

Welcome to Arizona! In this small mountain park, found to the southeast of Tucson, you will find one of the most lucrative bird hunting paradise in North America. On top of the birds, you have some small mammals as well. The reserve is split into 2 separate habitats: Chihuahuan Desert and Sky Islands

(This map is 32 sq km in size, or half the size of a normal map)
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Species List

(R) = Returning Species

Birds (Class 1)

Ring-Necked Pheasant (R)
White-Winged Dove
Montezuma Quail
Scaled Quail
Gambel’s Quail
Gould’s Turkey
Sandhill Crane

Small Mammals (Class 2)

Gray Fox (R)
Coyote (R)
Desert Cottontail
White-Sided Jackrabbit
Ringtail
Kit Fox
Hooded Skunk
White-Nosed Coati
American Badger

Medium Game (Class 3)

Javelina (R)
Coues Deer

Possible/Comtroversial Species

Jaguarundi (8-10 Animals Map Wide)
Ocelot (10-20 Animals Map Wide)
Jaguar (1 Male Animal Map Wide)

18 total species, 4 returning, 14 new
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[finite marsh]

🔥

[small knot]

Modded

[primal dawn]

hell yeah

[blazing mauve]

Vro can’t understand the wonderful hunting experience of Arizona

[small knot]

How can you hunt a drink brand

I need to like this before I look like a blind hater 😭

[small knot]

HELP I READ JAVELINA AS JAVELIN

[jaunty scarab]

Procyonids and mustelids mentioned- instant seal of approval

[blazing mauve]

Heck yeah, Procyonids need some more recognition in this game, especially Coatis

[jaunty scarab]

Indeed!! I love coatis. That’s all I’d hunt for the first month if they were added. Badgers too for sure 🥹🎉

[small knot]

There’s no seals on this map?

[mental remnant]

You will want to check out #1070045518002147458 for seals

[hot harbor]

There is, its the seal of approval very important but often forgotten

[small knot]

Why would I need approval from a seal

[blazing mauve]

If anyone’s has any other species that they would like to see on this map, please let me know. Keep in mind that this map is based on Southeastern Arizona, particularly the area around the Chiricahua Mountains.

[small knot]

Can you add a animal

[blazing mauve]

Perchance

[small knot]

Actually Jaguar would be cool

Arizona on the states with stragglers

[blazing mauve]

The only issue I could see with Jaguars is that it would have to be only 1-2 on the map at a time. Theres such a small amount of them in AZ (at the current moment there’s only 1 known in the state, that being Cochise, a young male). It would be the same issue with Ocelots. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to see both of these species in game, but idk about on an AZ reserve.

[small knot]

Okay but a single one at the bottom of the map would be fire

[mental remnant]

The best bet for Jaguar is a map set in a part of South America that not only allows sport-hunting to a similar degree that Argentina allows but also has a population of Jaguar (Jaguars are protected across their range irl but so are Bengal Tigers) and the only ones I know of are Suriname and Guyana (which allow people to hunt Brazilian Tapir) and Peru (It also has its own unique subspecies of white-tailed deer)

[blazing mauve]

Just having a single male wandering around could be cool, and seeing as they added Tigers and Snow Leopards to the game it wouldn’t be a stretch, but they would have to make it so the Jaguar has no drink zones, and is insanely elusive, much like a Snow Leopard is. Just make it SUPER difficult to find.

[mental remnant]

The one way I could see Jaguar work for a map like this is the way Te Awaroa has that one moose you can either photograph or shoot

[blazing mauve]

I could see that, although I’d personally prefer the single one on the map that you can run across. It would make it a lot more special to come across than it being a mission. I may put it down as a “Possible/Controversial Species” alongside Ocelots and Jaguarundis (despite Jaguarundis not being known from the state at all in the last 50 or so years), but thy would all have to have insanely small populations in order for it to not feel weird having them on the map.

[mental remnant]

I think Ocelots would fit better considering you did post this map idea as being more focused on small game while still being a controversial and exotic animal that is associated with the more tropical parts of the Americas

[blazing mauve]

Yeah, it’s generally small game focused, albeit Coues Deer aren’t exactly small game. Still, I’m not 100% opposed to a Jaguar. I’ll think on that one a bit more, but I’ll definitely add Ocelots on there with a small population (despite only 2 being known in the state I think a population of around 20 or so around the map wouldn’t hurt, although not being insanely realistic).

[mental remnant]

As much as I love Salzwiesen, I still felt a small population of species like Roe Deer, Sika Deer and some of the non-native Greater Rhea that exist in Northern Germany would have been a good fit while still being focused on smaller animals like pheasant, fox and ducks

[blazing mauve]

Agreed, having some medium game on the map would’ve been a good idea in my opinion. Even if it’s a small population of each, I think it would’ve been nice to have a bit more diversity.

[drowsy inlet]

Hang on a minute are you talking about these guys?

Wow I had no idea about that. I would probably have preferred for them to not have been included but I do agree with the Roe and Sika Deer

[primal dawn]

did someone say seal of approval?

[blazing mauve]

Jaguarundi, Ocelot, and Jaguar have all been added under “Possible/Controversial species”, with small populations map wide.

[hot harbor]

I did this for my own map concept but if american badgers come id love to see a mtm between coyotes and american badger to represent an actual recorded alliance they make irl

[mental remnant]

I am, they do have a population in Northern Germany that has been opened up to hunting for a few years now