WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Neotoma cinerea | Bushy-Tailed Woodrat 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Bushy-tailed woodrats occur from the Yukon Territory and Northwest
Territories south to Arizona and New Mexico and from California east to
the Black Hills, South Dakota and the Badlands of the upper Missouri
River drainage area of South Dakota and Nebraska [22].  The specific
ranges of the subspecies are listed below [15]:

N. c. drummondii - Occurs from the Yukon Territory and Northwest
Territories south to eastern British Columbia and western Alberta.

N. c. occidentalis - Occurs from the Yukon Territory to Washington,
the Cascade Range of Oregon, and northern Idaho.

N. c. cinerea - Occurs from southeastern British Columbia, southern
Alberta, and southwestern Saskatchewan south to central Idaho, western
Wyoming, Montana, and western North Dakota. 

N. c. alticola - Occurs in southern Washington, Oregon, southern Idaho,
northeastern Caliifornia, and northern Nevada.

N. c. rupicola - Occurs from southeastern Montana and North Dakota to
western Nebraska and northeastern Colorado.

N. c. cinnomomea - Occurs in southwestern Wyoming, northeastern Utah,
and northwestern Colorado.

N. c. fusca - Occurs in the Coast Ranges of Washington and Oregon.

N. c. pulla - Occurs from southwestern Oregon to northern California.

N. c. acraia - Occurs from east-central California to southeastern
Idaho, Utah, and northern Arizona.

N. c. lucida - Occurs in southeastern California and southwestern
Nevada. 

N. c. orolestes - Occurs from southeastern Montana and southwestern
South Dakota to northern New Mexico.

N. c. arizonae - Occurs in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona.

N. c. macrodon - Occurs in east-central Utah.



ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES20 Douglas-fir
FRES21 Ponderosa pine
FRES22 Western white pine
FRES23 Fir-spruce
FRES24 Hemlock-Sitka spruce
FRES25 Larch
FRES26 Lodgepole pine
FRES27 Redwood
FRES28 Western hardwoods
FRES29 Sagebrush
FRES34 Chaparral-mountain shrub
FRES35 Pinyon-juniper
FRES36 Mountain grasslands
FRES44 Alpine


STATES : 


 	
AZ
    
CA
    
CO
    
ID
    
MT
    
NE
	
NV
    
NM
	
OR
    
SD
 

    
UT
    
WA
    
WY
    
WY
 





    
AB
    
BC
    
NT
    
SK
    
YK
    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    





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 : 
   K001  Spruce - cedar - hemlock forest
   K002  Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest
   K003  Silver fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K004  Fir - hemlock forest
   K005  Mixed conifer forest
   K006  Redwood 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
   K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
   K017  Black Hills pine forest
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K019  Arizona pine forest 
   K020  Spruce - fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K021  Southwestern spruce - fir forest
   K022  Great Basin pine forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K024  Juniper steppe woodland
   K025  Alder - ash forest
   K028  Mosaic of K002 and K026
   K029  California mixed evergreen forest
   K037  Mountain-mahogany - oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K050  Fescue - wheatgrass
   K051  Wheatgrass - bluegrass
   K052  Alpine meadows and barren
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K063  Foothills prairie


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   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
   216  Blue spruce
   217  Aspen
   218  Lodgepole pine
   220  Rocky Mountain juniper
   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
   231  Port-Orford-cedar
   232  Redwood
   234  Douglas-fir - tanoak - Pacific madrone
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   238  Western juniper
   239  Pinyon - juniper
   244  Pacific ponderosa pine - Douglas-fir
   245  Pacific ponderosa pine
   247  Jeffrey pine
   248  Knobcone pine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Bushy-tailed woodrats inhabit a wide variety of life zones from the
arctic-alpine to the Sonoran Desert.  They have definite habitat
preferences in particular regions, but the species as a whole appears to
have a wide ecological amplitiude.  Bushy-tailed woodrats in Canada
inhabit open forests of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) and
ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) [1].  In the southern Oregon Coast
Range, bushy-tailed woodrats are more common in mixed-conifer forests
along streams than in Douglas-fir forests [3,4].  In this area,
bushy-tailed woodrats prefer shrub through closed sapling-pole red alder
(Alnus rubra) stands, shrub through old-growth mixed conifer forests,
and closed sapling-pole through old-growth temperate, high temperate, and
coniferous wetland forests [3].

In northern California, Tevis [34] found that bushy-tailed woodrats were
rare in the mixed-conifer forests of the Douglas-fir zone, but inhabited
redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forests.  In the Sierra Nevada,
bushy-tailed woodrats are widespread in rocky habitat in upper elevation
coniferous forests.  Here, they prefer early successional stages of
Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi), red fir (Abies magnifica), and lodgepole
pine (Pinus contorta) [30].  In the White Mountains of California,
bushy-tailed woodrats have a patchy distribution above timberline among
plant communities that typically include sagebrush (Artemisia spp.), wax
currant (Ribes cereum), and scattered grasses [14].

In south-central Idaho on the upper Snake River Plain, bushy-tailed
woodrats occupy the northern cold desert shrub biome in which basin big
sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata ssp. tridentata) covers more than 90
percent of the area.  Major plant associates are bottlebrush
squirreltail (Elymus elymoides), winterfat (Krascheninnikovia lanata),
and needle-and-thread (Stipa comata) [21].  In the spruce-fir (Picea
spp.-Abies spp.) zone of northern Utah, bushy-tailed woodrats were found
in meadow and quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) seral stages at a
subalpine site, but were not found in the fir or spruce-fir communities
[27].

In the Piceance Basin of Colorado, bushy-tailed woodrats occurred in a
rolling uplands area of sagebrush communities, true pinyon-Utah juniper
(Pinus edulis-Juniperus osteosperma) communities, mixed mountain shrub
communities, and bottomland sagebrush communities [17].


REFERENCES : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Wildlife Species: Neotoma cinerea | Bushy-Tailed Woodrat