WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Taxidea taxus | Badger 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Badgers are widely distributed in North America from central Alberta
south to central Mexico, and from the Pacific coast east to the Great
Lakes States [19].  Subspecies distributions are as follows.

T. t. berlandieri occurs from Oklahoma and Texas to the northern Sierra
Nevada and south to Mexico.

T. t. jacksoni occurs from Ohio and extreme southeastern Ontario to
Michigan, northern Indiana, northern Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Quebec, and southeastern Saskatchewan.

T. t. jeffersonii occurs in the western Great Plains from Colorado,
Wyoming, and eastern Montana to southern British Columbia, Washington,
Oregon, western California, and northern Baja California.

T. t. taxus occurs from western Ohio, Indiana, and northern and western
Missouri to eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, and eastern Montana;
north to Alberta, Manitoba, and southwestern Saskatchewan.

There is considerable overlap in the ranges of subspecies, with
intermediate forms occurring in the areas of overlap.  Badgers are
undergoing range extensions eastward through escape or release of
captive animals, and because of changes in agricultural patterns [19].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES10 White-red-jack pine
FRES11 Spruce-fir
FRES14 Oak-pine
FRES15 Oak-hickory
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
FRES42 Annual grasslands


STATES : 


    
AZ
    
AR
    
CA
    
CO
    
ID
    
IL
    
IN
    
IA
    
MI
    
MN
    
MO
    
MT
    
NE


    
NV
    
NM
    
ND
    
OH
    
OK
    
OR
	
SD
    
TN
    
TX
    
UT
    
WA
    
WI
    
WY






    
AB
    
BC
    
MB
    
ON
    
PQ
    
SK






    
MEXICO
    




BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    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 : 
   K011  Western ponderosa forest
   K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
   K017  Black Hills pine forest
   K018  Pine-Douglas-fir forest
   K019  Arizona pine forest 
   K022  Great Basin pine forest
   K024  Juniper steppe woodland
   K033  Chaparral
   K034  Montane chaparral
   K037  Mountain-mahogany-oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K040  Saltbush-greasewood
   K041  Creosotebush
   K047  Fescue-oatgrass
   K050  Fescue-wheatgrass
   K051  Wheatgrass-bluegrass
   K053  Grama-galleta steppe
   K054  Grama-tobosa prairie
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass-needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K057  Galleta-three-awn shrubsteppe
   K058  Grama-tobosa shrubsteppe
   K059  Trans-Pecos shrub savanna
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K064  Grama-needlegrass-wheatgrass
   K065  Grama-buffalograss
   K066  Wheatgrass-needlegrass
   K067  Wheatgrass-bluestem-needlegrass
   K068  Wheatgrass-grama-buffalograss
   K069  Bluestem-grama prairie
   K070  Sandsage-bluestem prairie
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K075  Nebraska Sandhills prairie
   K076  Blackland prairie
   K077  Bluestem-sacahuista prairie
   K085  Mesquite-buffalograss
   K088  Fayette prairie


SAF COVER TYPES : 
   217  Aspen
   237  Interior ponderosa pine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
   101  Bluebunch wheatgrass
   102  Idaho fescue
   103  Green fescue
   104  Antelope bitterbrush-bluebunch wheatgrass
   105  Antelope bitterbrush-Idaho fescue
   106  Bluegrass scabland
   107  Western juniper/big sagebrush/bluebunch wheatgrass
   204  North coastal shrub
   205  Coastal sage shrub
   206  Chamise chaparral
   207  Scrub oak mixed chaparral
   208  Ceanothus mixed chaparral
   209  Montane shrubland
   210  Bitterbrush
   211  Creosotebush scrub
   212  Blackbush
   215  Valley grassland
   301  Bluebunch wheatgrass-blue grama
   302  Bluebunch wheatgrass-Sandberg bluegrass
   303  Bluebunch wheatgrass-western wheatgrass
   304  Idaho fescue-bluebunch wheatgrass
   305  Idaho fescue-Richardson needlegrass
   306  Idaho fescue-slender wheatgrass
   307  Idaho fescue-threadleaf sedge
   308  Idaho fescue-tufted hairgrass
   309  Idaho fescue-western wheatgrass
   311  Rough fescue-bluebunch wheatgrass
   312  Rough fescue-Idaho fescue
   313  Tufted hairgrass-sedge
   322  Curlleaf mountain-mahogany-bluebunch wheatgrass
   323  Shrubby cinquefoil-rough fescue
   413  Gambel oak
   414  Salt desert shrub
   415  Curlleaf mountain-mahogany
   416  True mountain-mahogany
   501  Saltbush-greasewood
   502  Grama-galleta
   503  Arizona chaparral
   505  Grama-tobosa shrub
   506  Creosotebush-bursage
   507  Palo verde-cactus
   508  Creosotebush-tarbush
   509  Transition between oak-juniper woodland and mahogany-oak association
   601  Bluestem prairie
   602  Bluestem-prairie sandreed
   603  Prairie sandreed-needlegrass
   604  Bluestem-grama prairie
   605  Sandsage prairie
   606  Wheatgrass-bluestem-needlegrass
   607  Wheatgrass-needlegrass
   608  Wheatgrass-grama-needlegrass
   609  Wheatgrass-grama
   610  Wheatgrass
   611  Blue grama-buffalograss
   612  Sagebrush-grass
   614  Crested wheatgrass
   615  Wheatgrass-saltgrass-grama
   701  Alkali sacaton-tobosagrass
   702  Black grama-alkali sacaton
   703  Black grama-sideoats grama
   704  Blue grama-western wheatgrass
   705  Blue grama-galleta
   706  Blue grama-sideoats grama
   707  Blue grama-sideoats grama-black grama
   708  Bluestem-dropseed
   709  Bluestem-grama
   710  Bluestem prairie
   711  Bluestem-sacahuista prairie
   712  Galleta-alkali sacaton
   713  Grama-muhly-threeawn
   714  Grama-bluestem
   715  Grama-buffalograss
   716  Grama-feathergrass
   717  Little bluestem-Indiangrass-Texas wintergrass
   718  Mesquite-grama
   720  Sand bluestem-little bluestem (dunes)
   721  Sand bluestem-little bluestem (plains)
   722  Sand sagebrush-mixed prairie
   724  Sideoats grama-New Mexico feathergrass-winterfat
   801  Savanna
   802  Missouri prairie
   803  Missouri glades
   804  Tall fescue
   805  Riparian
   819  Freshwater marsh and ponds


PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Badgers are most commonly found in treeless areas including tallgrass
and shortgrass prairies, grass-dominated meadows and fields within
forested habitats, and shrub-steppe communities.  In the Southwest plant
indicators of the Sonoran and Transition life zones (relatively low, dry
elevations) commonly associated with badgers include creosotebush
(Larrea tridentata), junipers (Juniperus spp.), Gambel oak (Quercus
gambelii), willows (Salix spp.), cottonwoods (Populus spp.), ponderosa
pine (Pinus ponderosa), grasses, and sagebrushes (Artemisia spp.) [19].
In Colorado badgers are common in grass-forb and ponderosa pine habitats
[22].  In Kansas badgers are common in tallgrass prairie dominated by
big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii), little bluestem (Schizachyrium
scoparium), and Indian grass (Sorghastrum nutans) [9].  In Montana
badgers are present in Glacier National Park in fescue (Festuca spp.)
grasslands [30].  In Manitoba badgers occur in grassland extensions
within aspen (Populus spp.)  parklands [3].


REFERENCES : 
NO-ENTRY

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