WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Tamiasciurus hudsonicus | Red Squirrel 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
The range of the red squirrel extends from Quebec and Ontario west to
Alaska; south in the Appalachian Mountains to Tennessee; and south in
the Rocky Mountains to New Mexico [6].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES10 White-red-jack pine
FRES11 Spruce-fir
FRES14 Oak-pine
FRES15 Oak-hickory
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
    
AZ
    
CO
    
CT
    
DE
    
ID
    
IL
    
IN
    
IA
    
KY


    
ME
    
MD
    
MA
    
MI
    
MN
    
MT
    
NH
    
NJ
    
NM
    
NY


    
NC
    
ND
    
OH
    
OR
    
PA
    
RI
    
SC
    
SD
    
TN
    
UT


    
VT
    
VA
    
WA
    
WV
    
WI
    
WY






    
AB
    
BC
    
MB
    
NB
    
NF
    
NT
    
ON
    
PQ
    
SK
    
YT




BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    5  Columbia Plateau
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    7  Lower Basin and Range
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   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
   K004  Fir-hemlock forest
   K005  Mixed conifer forest
   K008  Lodgepole pine-subalpine 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
   K028  Mosaic of K002 and K026
   K093  Great Lakes spruce-fir forest
   K094  Conifer bog
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce-fir forest
   K097  Southeastern spruce-fir forest
   K099  Maple-basswood forest
   K100  Oak-hickory forest
   K102  Beech-maple forest
   K103  Mixed mesophytic forest
   K104  Appalachian oak forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods
   K107  Northern hardwoods-fir forest
   K108  Northern hardwoods-spruce forest
   K111  Oak-hickory-pine forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
     5  Balsam fir
    12  Black spruce
    13  Black spruce-tamarack
    14  Northern pin oak
    15  Red pine
    16  Aspen
    18  Paper birch
    19  Gray birch-red maple
    20  White pine-northern red oak-red maple
    21  Eastern white pine
    22  White pine-hemlock
    23  Eastern hemlock
    24  Hemlock-yellow birch
    25  Sugar maple-beech-yellow birch
    26  Sugar maple-basswood
    27  Sugar maple
    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
    40  Post oak-blackjack oak
    51  White pine-chestnut oak
    52  White oak-black oak-northern red oak
    53  White oak
    55  Northern red oak
    78  Virginia pine-oak
   107  White spruce
   201  White spruce
   202  White spruce-paper birch
   204  Black spruce
   205  Mountain hemlock
   206  Engelmann spruce-subalpine 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
   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
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   251  White spruce-aspen
   253  Black spruce-white spruce
   254  Black spruce-paper birch


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
   109  Ponderosa pine shrubland
   409  Tall forb
   809  Mixed hardwood and pine


PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
The red squirrel inhabits coniferous forests, mixed conifer-hardwood and
occasionally hardwood forests, and rural woodlots [6,19,13].

In western North America red squirrels occur in white spruce (Picea
glauca) and black spruce (P. mariana) stands [13,34], Douglas-fir
(Pseudotsuga menziesii) forests [22] and pine (Pinus spp.) forests [41].

In Alberta red squirrels occur in quaking aspen (Populus
tremuloides)-balsam poplar (P. balsamea) stands with scattered white
spruce and black spruce [19].  They also occupy habitats dominated by
jack pine (Pinus banksiana) with occasional stands of white spruce.
Tamarack (Larix laricina) bogs and black spruce bogs are usually
occupied only for periods by juvenile red squirrels searching for
suitable territories [13,24].

In Wyoming red squirrels are present in continuous whitebark pine (P.
albicaulis), Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii)-subalpine fir (Abies
lasiocarpa), and lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) forests [18].

In Colorado red squirrels favor lodgepole pine forests over open stands
of ponderosa pine (P. ponderosa) [13].  They are also found in
Douglas-fir and in stands transitional between Douglas-fir and ponderosa
pine.  Their absence from ponderosa pine stands may be a result of
interspecific competition with Abert's squirrels (Sciurus aberti).
Outside the range of Abert's squirrel, red squirrels are more common in
ponderosa pine stands (i.e., in Black Hills National Forest, South
Dakota, and Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming) [11].

In Arizona and Utah red squirrels prefer fir and spruce forests and are
more rarely found in ponderosa pine forests [13].  They are closely
associated with old-growth Douglas-fir, white fir (A. concolor), and
blue spruce (Picea pungens) stands [27].  Red squirrels are common in
low-elevation mixed species forests in central Arizona [46].

In eastern North America red squirrels are abundant in mature hardwood
forests containing some mature spruce (Picea spp.), eastern hemlock
(Tsuga occidentalis), or balsam fir (A. balsamea), but are rare in pure
hardwood stands that do not contain oaks (Quercus spp.), hickories
(Carya spp.), or walnuts (Juglans spp.) [25,53].  In the mountains of
Virginia red squirrels occur in Table Mountain pine (Pinus pungens)-oak
forests [45].


REFERENCES : 
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Related categories for Wildlife Species: Tamiasciurus hudsonicus | Red Squirrel