WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Ursus arctos | Grizzly Bear 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
The grizzly bear ranges from Alaska east through the Yukon and Northwest
Territories, south through British Columbia and through the western half
of Alberta.  Isolated populations exist in northwestern Washington,
northern Idaho, western Montana, and northwestern Wyoming.  The
subspecies horribilis includes all brown bear of continental North
America; the subspecies middendorffi includes brown bear on the Alaskan
islands of Kodiak, Afognak, and Shuyak.  The subspecies nelsoni range is
in northern Mexico [6].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES11 Spruce-fir
FRES20 Douglas-fir
FRES21 Ponderosa pine
FRES22 Western white pine
FRES23 Fir-spruce
FRES24 Hemlock-Sitka spruce
FRES25 Larch
FRES26 Lodgepole pine
FRES29 Sagebrush
FRES36 Mountain grasslands
FRES37 Mountain meadows
FRES38 Plains grasslands
FRES44 Alpine


STATES : 


    
AK
    
ID
    
MT
    
WA
    
WY
 





    
AB
    
BC
    
MB
    
YK






    
MEXICO




BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
   8  Northern Rocky Mountains
   9  Middle Rocky Mountains


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
   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
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K020  Spruce - fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K050  Fescue - wheatgrass
   K052  Alpine meadows and barren
   K063  Foothills prairie


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    16  Aspen
    18  Paper birch
   109  Hawthorn
   201  White spruce
   202  White spruce - paper birch
   203  Balsam poplar
   204  Black spruce
   205  Mountain hemlock
   206  Engelmann spruce - subalpine fir
   208  Whitebark pine
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   212  Western larch
   213  Grand fir
   215  Western white pine
   217  Aspen
   218  Lodgepole pine
   219  Limber pine
   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
   235  Cottonwood - willow
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   251  White spruce - aspen
   252  Paper birch
   253  Black spruce - white spruce
   254  Black spruce - paper birch


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Although timber is an important habitat component, grizzly bear prefer
more open habitats.  Timbered plant communities most frequented by
grizzly bear include subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa)-whitebark pine
(Pinus albicaulis), lodgepole pine (P. contorta)-Douglas-fir
(Pseudotsuga menziesii), and spruce (Picea spp.)-western redcedar (Thuja
plicata)-hemlock (Tsuga spp.) forests.  Sedge (Carex spp.)-bluegrass
(Poa spp.) meadows are also important, as well as shrubfields and lowand
high-elevation riparian communities [3,23,36,39].


REFERENCES : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Wildlife Species: Ursus arctos | Grizzly Bear