WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Oreamnos americanus | Mountain Goat 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Mountain goats historically were found in rugged coastal and mountainous
areas of western North America from southeastern Alaska to south-central
Washington.  They ranged as far south as central Idaho and east to
western Alberta and Montana.  The mountain goat is still found
throughout its historical range.  Additionally, transplant programs
initiated as early as 1920 have expanded the range of mountain goats
both in states where goats historically occurred and in states outside
their natural range.  Mountain goats have been successfully introduced
in Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and South Dakota [5].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES20 Douglas-fir
FRES22 Western white pine
FRES23 Fir-spruce
FRES24 Hemlock-Sitka spruce
FRES26 Lodgepole pine
FRES28 Western hardwoods
FRES36 Mountain grasslands
FRES37 Mountain meadows
FRES44 Alpine


STATES : 


    
AK
    
CO
    
ID
    
MT
    
NE
    
OR
    
SD
    
UT
    
WA
    
WY






    
AB
    
BC
	
SK
    




BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
   15  Black Hills Uplift


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K001  Spruce - cedar - hemlock forest
   K002  Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest
   K003  Silver fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K004  Fir - hemlock forest
   K008  Lodgepole pine - subalpine forest
   K013  Cedar - hemlock - pine forest
   K012 Douglas-fir forest
   K015  Western spruce - fir forest
   K020  Spruce - fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K050  Fescue - wheatgrass
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K052  Alpine meadows and barren


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   205  Mountain hemlock
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   208  Whitebark pine
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   215  Western white pine
   217  Aspen
   218  Lodgepole pine
   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


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Mountain goats inhabit high-elevation tundra, grassy slopes, and alpine
and subalpine meadows intermixed with forest.  These communities are
often dominated by grasses, sedges (Carex spp.), rushes (Juncus spp.),
sagebrush (Artemisa spp.), huckleberry (Vaccinum ssp.) and other high-
elevation shrubs and forbs.  Forest communities in which mountian goats
occur have been listed in the Kuchler Plant Associations and SAF Cover
Types [4,8,11,17].


REFERENCES : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Wildlife Species: Oreamnos americanus | Mountain Goat