Kit foxes favor arid climates, such as desert scrub, chaparral, and grasslands. Detritus occurs in a variety of terrestrial habitats including forest, chaparral and grassland. The fort covers hundreds of acres of grassland, chaparral and oak woodland. It is found in a variety of forested habitats and montane chaparral. The California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion is subdivided into three smaller ecoregions. Sunny, drier slopes are grassy or covered in scattered oaks and chaparral brush. Other foothill areas are dominated by thick chaparral and brush. They can be found in mountains, woodlands, orchards, meadows, and chaparral habitats. The slopes are covered with oak woodland and chaparral. Lower down in the foothill zones, chaparral and brush dominate. These forests are fairly sparse, and are intermixed with chaparral and oak savannah. Naturally, desert chaparral experiences less winter rainfall than cismontane chaparral. DACC operates centers in Anthony, Sunland Park, Chaparral, and White Sands Missile Range. Fire suppression activities had failed to exclude fire from the southern California chaparral. Rattlesnakes are also inhabitants, mostly in the high, dry chaparral.