WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Procyon lotor | Raccoon 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Raccoons occur across Canada from Nova Scotia to British Columbia,
throughout the conterminous United States except for portions of the
northern Rocky Mountains and Great Basin, and south throughout Mexico
and Central America.  Prior to 1950 raccoons apparently were absent from
western Wyoming and western Montana.  In recent years they have become
common in parts of western Montana but have been seen only rarely in
western Wyoming [6,26,30].  The current distribution of subspecies was
not described in the literature.


ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES10 White-red-jack pine
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
FRES24 Hemlock-Sitka spruce
FRES25 Larch
FRES26 Lodgepole pine
FRES27 Redwood
FRES28 Western hardwoods
FRES29 Sagebrush
FRES30 Desert shrub
FRES31 Shinnery
FRES32 Texas savanna
FRES33 Southwestern shrubsteppe
FRES34 Chaparral-mountain shrub
FRES35 Pinyon-juniper
FRES36 Mountain grasslands
FRES37 Mountain meadows
FRES38 Plains grasslands
FRES39 Prairie
FRES40 Desert grasslands
FRES41 Wet grasslands
FRES42 Annual grasslands
FRES44 Alpine


STATES : 


    
AL
    
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






    
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 : 
   Raccoons probably occur in most Kuchler plant associations.


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   Raccoons probably occur in most SAF cover types.


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
   Raccoons probably occur in most SRM (rangeland) cover types.


PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Throughout their range raccoons are found in almost any plant community
where water is available.  They are most abundant in hardwood swamps,
mangroves (Rhizophora mangle), floodplain forests, and fresh- and
saltwater marshes.  They are also common in mesic hardwood stands, in
cultivated and abandoned farmlands, and in suburban residential areas
[6,26,30].  In the prairie provinces of Canada, raccoons are commonly
found in quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) parklands [2].  They are
relatively scarce in dry upland woodlands, especially where pines are
mixed with hardwoods, and few are found in southern pine forests [6].


REFERENCES : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Wildlife Species: Procyon lotor | Raccoon