WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Alces alces | Moose 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
The moose can be found throughout Scandanavia, northern Asia, and
northern North America.  In North America, the subspecies gigas ranges
from northwestern British Columbia into western Yukon Territory and
throughout most of Alaska.  Subspecies shirasi can be found in western
Wyoming, north and central Idaho, western Montana, southwestern Alberta,
southeastern British Columbia, and in isolated areas of Utah, Colorado,
and extreme northwestern Washington.  Subspecies andersoni ranges from
northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan into western Ontario, west
to central British Columbia, and north to eastern Yukon Territory and
the Northwest Territories.  Subspecies americana ranges from Maine and
Nova Scotia, west through Quebec and central Ontario, and from Hudson
Bay south to the Great Lakes [34].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES10 White-red-jack pine
FRES11 Spruce-fir
FRES19 Aspen-birch
FRES20 Douglas-fir
FRES21 Ponderosa pine
FRES22 Western white pine
FRES23 Fir-spruce
FRES25 Larch
FRES26 Lodgepole pine
FRES28 Western hardwoods
FRES37 Mountain meadows


STATES : 


    
AK
	
CO
    
ID
    
ME
    
MI
    
MN
    
MT


    
NH
    
UT
	
WA
    
WI
    
WY






    
AB
    
BC
    
MB
    
NB
    
NF
    
NT
    
NS
    
ON


    
PE
    
PQ
    
SK
    
YT
    

    

    

    

    

    





BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    5  Columbia Plateau
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K001  Spruce - cedar - hemlock forest
   K002  Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest
   K004  Fir - hemlock forest
   K005  Mixed conifer forest
   K008  Lodgepole pine - subalpine forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K013  Cedar - hemlock - pine forest
   K014  Grand fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K015  Western spruce - fir forest
   K020  Spruce - fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K094  Conifer bog
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
     5  Balsam fir
    12  Black spruce
    13  Black spruce - tamarack
    15  Red pine
    16  Aspen
    17  Pin cherry
    18  Paper birch
    21  Eastern white pine
    22  White pine - hemlock
    23  Eastern hemlock
    24  Hemlock - yellow birch
    30  Red spruce - yellow birch
    32  Red spruce
    33  Red spruce - balsam fir
    35  Paper birch - red spruce - balsam fir
    37  Northern white cedar
    38  Tamarack
   107  White spruce
   201  White spruce
   202  White spruce - paper birch
   203  Balsam poplar
   204  Black spruce
   205  Mountain hemlock
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   208  Whitebark pine
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   212  Western larch
   213  Grand fir
   215  Western white pine
   216  Blue spruce
   217  Aspen
   218  Lodgepole pine
   219  Limber pine
   221  Red alder
   222  Black cottonwood - willow
   223  Sitka spruce
   224  Western hemlock
   225  Western hemlock - Sitka spruce
   226  Coastal true fir - hemlock
   227  Western redcedar - western hemlock
   228  Western redcedar
   229  Pacific Douglas-fir
   230  Douglas-fir - western hemlock
   235  Cottonwood - willow
   251  White spruce - aspen
   252  Paper birch
   254  Black spruce - paper birch


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
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PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Moose are found throughout the boreal forests of North America.  They
inhabit jack pine (Pinus banksiana)-balsam fir (Abies balsamea) forests
mixed with paper birch (Betula papyrifera) and quaking aspen (Populus
tremuloides).  They also inhabit white spruce (Picea glauca)-black
spruce (P. mariana) forests mixed with birch (Betula spp.) and willow
(Salix spp.)  [12,39].  In the West moose inhabit Douglas-fir
(Pseudotsuga menziesii)/ninebark (Physocarpus malvaceous) habitat types,
with snowberry (Symphoricarpus albus), redosier dogwood (Cornus sericea)
and willow.  Moose are also found in grand fir (Abies grandis)-Pacific
yew (Taxus brevifolia) forests and subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa)-
Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii) types with aspen [22,36,37].  Moose
use riparian communities and herbacious bogs.  Moose are capable of
altering the species composition of plant communities and the overall
character of communities through overbrowsing [8,17].


REFERENCES : 
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Related categories for Wildlife Species: Alces alces | Moose