WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Mustela vison | Mink 



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
FRES37 Mountain meadows
FRES38 Plains grasslands
FRES39 Prairie
FRES41 Wet grasslands
FRES44 Alpine


STATES : 


    
AL
    
AK
    
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






    
AB
    
BC
    
MB
    
NB
    
NF
    
NT
    
NS
    
ON
    
PE
    
PQ


    
SK
    
YK
    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    





GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Mink range across Canada, excepting the high Arctic, west through Alaska
and south throughout the United States except for the southwestern
deserts [10].


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
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   Mink occur in most Kuchler plant associations, except those in the
   southwestern deserts.


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   Mink occur in most SAF cover types, except those in the
   southwestern deserts.


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
   203  Riparian woodland
   217  Wetlands
   409  Tall forb
   411  Aspen woodland
   421  Chokecherry-serviceberry-rose
   422  Riparian
   805  Riparian
   806  Gulf Coast salt marsh
   807  Gulf Coast fresh marsh
   809  Mixed hardwood and pine
   811  South Florida flatwoods
   812  North Florida flatwoods
   813  Cutthroat seeps
   814  Cabbage palm flatwoods
   815  Upland hardwood hammocks
   816  Cabbage palm hammocks
   817  Oak hammocks
   818  Florida salt marsh
   820  Everglades flatwoods
   821  Pitcher plant bogs
   822  Slough


PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Mink occur in a wide variety of plant communities.  They are associated
with water rather than with particular habitat types.  Mink are more
often associated with coniferous and mixed forests than deciduous
forests.  They are also found in grassland environments if open water or
marshland is present [1].


REFERENCES : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Wildlife Species: Mustela vison | Mink