BADGER DISTRIBUTION

Range of the North American badger

Taxidea taxus, indicating its four subspecies in the USA and Canada, 1998. Subspecies range limits corrected based on recent literature and surveys completed by provincial and state wildlife agency personnel or other local experts. Range of T. t. jacksoni may extend from Minnesota into northwestern Ontario, either as extralimital forays or possibly as small resident population. Existence ofT. t. jacksoni in southeast Manitoba is highly questionable; badgers in that area are more likely to be T. t. taxus. Lines were smoothed where range limits drawn by respondents did not match across jurisdictional boundaries (adapted from Newhouse and Kinley, in prep.).