Is there adequate foraging habitat available?
Based on habitat features important to selected prey used by goshawks, it appears that foraging habitat is presently available throughout the State. Nearly all the forested lands in the State contained medium-rated or better habitat for two or more prey groups. Even much of the pinyon/juniper woodland type has good prey habitat. 3. Are northern goshawks able to move freely among all available habitat patches? Goshawks appear to be able to move freely among habitat patches throughout Utah. Using a conservative estimate of 20 to 60 miles as the distances over which goshawks explore habitats annually, all patches of high value habitat are likely to be detected from one or more adjacent high value patches (map 9). In most cases, the patches are contiguous or separated by distances of less than 20 miles. The longest distance between patches occurs in southeastern Utah, where high value habitat in the La Sal and Abajo Mountains is more than 60 miles from the nearest high value habitat elsewh
