ArcMap 9.2 and accompanying tools were for the analysis. The GAP Idaho land cover map
(Scott et al. 2002) was masked by GMU 28 (map from Bureau of Land Management, Idaho
Office). The mid‐scale Land Cover map has a cell size of 30 meters and has integer values
ranging from 1000 to 9000 indicating different categories of land cover. The spatial analyst tool
‘reclass’ was used to combine the land cover values into common categories based on their
thousands‐place value (table 1)