GAP Analysis Predicted Distribution Map

Long-tailed Vole (Microtus longicaudus)

Species Code: MILO

Legend: = Core Habitat = Marginal Habitat Breeding Range Map The green area shows the predicted habitats for breeding only. The habitats were identified using 1991 satellite imagery, other datasets and experts throughout the state, as part of the Washington Gap Analysis Project. Click to enlarge distribution map Map with historical museum records Other maps & Information: NatureMapping observations throughout the year

Found in a wide variety of habitats, from sea level to krummholz at timberline, throughout the state except in the hottest, driest part of the Columbia Basin. Present in all forest types, brush, marshes, meadows, rock slides, areas where forest and meadows or grasslands overlap, clearcuts, and forest burns. It is absent from the alpine zone above krummholz. Much more common near water in all vegetation zones. Found in meadows and grass lands in the western part of Washington but largely excluded from them in the eastern part of the state.

All zones where is occurs considered core area. Good habitats in most forested zones were pasture, water/wetlands (except estuarine mudflats), and all non-forested and forested cover. Low density development was adequate habitat in all zones. In steppe zones, only water/wetland was good habitat.

Translated from the Washington Gap Analysis Mammal Volume by Dave Lester
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