Yellow Pine Chipmunk (Neotamias amoenus)

About Yellow Pine Chipmunk (Neotamias amoenus)

• Kingdom: Animals
• Phylum: Chordates
• Class: Mammals
• Order: Rodents
• Family: Squirrels

Yellow-pine chipmunks are most common in brushy coniferous forests, but can be found in a broad range of habitat types including areas with rocky outcrops, chaparral, and meadows. They occupy areas that are dominated by shrubs such as service berry (Amelanchier), snowberry (Symphoricarpos), mountain mahogany (Cercocarpus), currant (Ribes), antelope brush (Purshia), and buckbrush (Ceanothus).

Yellow-pine chipmunks require logs, snags, rock crevices, or stumps for nesting, in addition to shrubs and ground litter for cover.

Yellow-pine chipmunks typically occur at altitudes ranging from 600 to 2,800 m, however in Washington they have been recorded at elevations of up to 4,300 m.

Range elevation: 600 to 4,300 m.

Average elevation: 2,800 m.

Habitat Regions: temperate ; terrestrial

Terrestrial Biomes: chaparral ; forest ; mountains

Other Habitat Features: riparian

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