WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Lynx lynx | Lynx 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
The lynx is found in the taiga zone of North America, from British
Columbia east to the Atlantic Coast of Canada.  It ranges from Alaska
south, except for the coastal areas, to isolated parts of Washington,
Idaho, and Montana.  The lynx is also found in central Utah and in a
fraction of Colorado.  Small populations may still exist in northern
Minnesota, Wisconsin, and New Hampshire [21].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES10 White-red-jack pine
FRES11 Spruce-fir
FRES18 Maple-beech-birch
FRES19 Aspen-birch
FRES20 Douglas-fir
FRES21 Ponderosa pine
FRES22 Western white pine
FRES23 Fir-spruce
FRES24 Hemlock-Sitka spruce
FRES25 Larch
FRES26 Lodgepole pine


STATES : 


    
AK
	
CO
    
ID
    
ME
    
MI
    
MN
    
MT
    
NH
    
UT
    
VT
    
WA
    
WI






    
AB
    
BC
    
MB
    
NB
    
NF
    
NT
    
NS
    
ON
    
PQ
    
SK
    
YK
    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    





BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    2  Cascade Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   12  Colorado Plateau
   15  Black Hills Uplift


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K001  Spruce - cedar - hemlock forest
   K002  Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest
   K004  Fir - hemlock forest
   K005  Mixed conifer forest
   K007  Red fir forest
   K008  Lodgepole pine - subalpine forest
   K010  Ponderosa shrub forest
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K013  Cedar - hemlock - pine forest
   K014  Grand fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K015  Western spruce - fir forest
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K020  Spruce - fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K021  Southwestern spruce - 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
    18  Paper birch
    21  Eastern white pine
    22  White pine - hemlock
    30  Red spruce - yellow birch
    31  Red spruce - sugar maple - beech
    32  Red spruce
    33  Red spruce - balsam fir
    34  Red spruce - Fraser 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
   207  Red fir
   208  Whitebark pine
   209  Bristlecone pine
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   211  White fir
   212  Western larch
   213  Grand fir
   215  Western white pine
   218  Lodgepole pine
   219  Limber pine
   223  Sitka spruce
   224  Western hemlock
   225  Western hemlock - Sitka spruce
   227  Western redcedar - western hemlock
   228  Western redcedar
   230  Douglas-fir - western hemlock
   251  White spruce - aspen
   253  Black spruce - white spruce
   254  Black spruce - paper birch


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
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PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Lynx are associated with dense climax forests at elevations above 4,000
feet (1,200 m).  They also use early seral stage communities bordering
dense forests.  Because their populations are closely tied to snowshoe
hare (Lepus americanus) numbers, lynx can also be found in second growth
forests when hare are numerous [5,10].  Lynx inhabit hemlock (Tsuga
spp.)-spruce (Picea spp.)-fir (Abies spp.) forests in the West and pine
(Pinus spp.) and birch (Betula spp.)-spruce (Picea spp.)-fir (Abies
spp.)  forests in the East.  They are also found in the taiga region of
North America.


REFERENCES : 
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