WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Castor canadensis | Beaver 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
The beaver is found throughout most of North America except in the
Arctic tundra, peninsular Florida, and the Southwestern deserts
[2,31,35].  The distribution of six subspecies is listed below [10,19].
The distribution of the other seven was not found in the literature.
  
C. c. ssp. carolinensis - occurs in the southeastern part of the United
States north to southern Virginia, northern Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and
west to southeastern Iowa, eastern Missouri, eastern Arkansas and
Louisiana [19].

C. c. ssp. taylori - occurs in northern Nevada in the streams and
tributaries of the Snake River drainage [10].

C. c. ssp. baileyi - occurs in the Humboldt River drainage [10].

C. c. ssp. repentinus - occurs along the Colorado River [10].

C. c. ssp. texensis - occurs in eastern Texas [10].

C. c. ssp. leucodenta - occurs along the Coast Ranges from California to
Alaska [10].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES11 Spruce-fir
FRES12 Longleaf-slash pine
FRES13 Loblolly-shortleaf pine
FRES14 Oak-pine
FRES15 Oak-hickory
FRES16 Oak-gum-cypress
FRES17 Elm-ash-cottonwood
FRES18 Maple-beech-birch
FRES19 Aspen-birch
FRES20 Douglas-fir
FRES21 Ponderosa pine
FRES22 Western white pine
FRES23 Fir-spruce
FRES25 Larch
FRES28 Western hardwoods


STATES : 


    
AL
    
AK
	
AZ
    
AR
    
CA
    
CO
    
CT
    
DE
    
FL
    
GA


    
ID
    
IL
    
IN
    
IA
    
KS
    
KY
    
LA
    
ME
    
MD


    
MA
    
MI
    
MN
    
MS
    
MO
    
MT
    
NE
    
NV
    
NH
    
NJ


    
NM
    
NY
    
NC
    
ND
    
OH
    
OK
    
OR
    
PA
    
RI
    
SC


    
SD
    
TN
    
TX
    
UT
    
VT
    
VA
    
WA
    
WV
    
WI
    
WY


    
DC
    
PR
    
VI
    

    

    

    

    

    

    







    
AB
    
BC
    
MB
    
NB
    
NF
    
NT
    
NS
    
ON
    
PE
    
PQ


    
SK
    
YT
    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    







    
MEXICO
    




BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    4  Sierra Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    7  Lower Basin and Range
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K005  Mixed conifer forest
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K014  Grand fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
   K017  Black Hills pine forest
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K020  Spruce - fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K021  Southwestern spruce - fir forest
   K025  Alder - ash forest
   K029  California mixed evergreen forest
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K094  Conifer bog
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   K098  Northern floodplain forest
   K099  Maple - basswood forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K101  Elm - ash forest
   K102  Beech - maple forest
   K103  Mixed mesophytic forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods
   K107  Northern hardwoods - fir forest
   K109  Transition between K104 and K106
   K110  Northeastern oak - pine forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest
   K113  Southern floodplain forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    16  Aspen
    18  Paper birch
    19  Gray birch - red maple
    20  White pine - northern red oak - red maple
    22  White pine - hemlock
    24  Hemlock - yellow birch
    25  Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch
    26  Sugar maple - basswood
    27  Sugar maple
    28  Black cherry - maple
    30  Red spruce - yellow birch
    31  Red spruce - sugar maple - beech
    35  Paper birch - red spruce - balsam fir
    39  Black ash - American elm - red maple
    57  Yellow-poplar
    58  Yellow-poplar - eastern hemlock
    59  Yellow-poplar - white oak - northern red oak
    60  Beech - sugar maple
    61  River birch - sycamore
    62  Silver maple - American elm
    63  Cottonwood
    88  Willow oak - water oak - diamondleaf oak
    93  Sugarberry - American elm - green ash
    95  Black willow
    96  Overcup oak - water hickory
   108  Red maple
   202  White spruce - paper birch
   203  Balsam poplar
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   212  Western larch
   213  Grand fir
   217  Aspen
   221  Red alder
   222  Black cottonwood - willow
   229  Pacific Douglas-fir
   230  Douglas-fir - western hemlock
   235  Cottonwood - willow
   243  Sierra Nevada mixed conifer
   244  Pacific ponderosa pine - Douglas-fir
   245  Pacific ponderosa pine
   251  White spruce - aspen
   252  Paper birch
   254  Black spruce -  paper birch


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Beavers commonly inhabit riparian areas of mixed coniferous-deciduous
forests and deciduous forests containing abundant beaver foods and lodge
building material such as quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), willows
(Salix spp.), alders (Alnus spp.), red-osier dogwood (Cornus sericea),
and cottonwoods (Populus spp.) [2,25].


REFERENCES : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Wildlife Species: Castor canadensis | Beaver