Hunting maps
USA Species Range Maps.
Interactive USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps for North America's most hunted species. Public domain, research-grade habitat polygons.
USA Range Map
Rocky Mountain and Roosevelt elk range across the contiguous United States.
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White-tailed deer range — North America's most widespread and most hunted big-game species.
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Mule deer range across the western United States, from the Great Plains to the Pacific.
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Wild turkey range covering Eastern, Osceola, Rio Grande, Merriam's, and Gould's subspecies.
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American black bear range across the contiguous United States.
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Coyote range across the contiguous United States — the most widely distributed wild canid in North America.
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Gray wolf range across the contiguous United States as mapped in 2001 — before significant range expansion in the Western Great Lakes and No…
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Eastern cottontail rabbit range — the most widespread and most hunted rabbit species in North America.
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Pronghorn range across the open country of the American West and Great Plains — the fastest land mammal in the Western Hemisphere.
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Rocky Mountain and Desert bighorn sheep range across the mountain West — one of the most prized and hard-to-draw tags in North America.
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Mountain goat range across the high alpine West — native to the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountains, with introduced populations in severa…
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Moose range across the northern tier of the contiguous United States — from northern New England through the Great Lakes to the Northern Roc…
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Cougar (mountain lion) range across the western United States, with isolated populations in Florida and the easternmost edge of the Great Pl…
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Bobcat range across nearly the entire contiguous United States — the most widely distributed wild cat in North America.
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Red fox range across most of the contiguous United States — the most widespread wild fox species in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Gray fox range across the contiguous United States — the only North American canid that regularly climbs trees.
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Ring-necked pheasant range across the agricultural heartland of the United States — introduced from Asia in the late 1800s and now the most…
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Ruffed grouse range across the northern forests of the United States — the classic 'king of game birds' of northern woods hunting.
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Northern bobwhite range across the southeastern and south-central United States — the iconic quail of southern plantation hunting.
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Chukar partridge range across the arid rocky slopes and canyons of the Great Basin and intermountain West.
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Sharp-tailed grouse range across the northern prairies and brushlands of the Great Plains and intermountain West.
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Greater sage-grouse range across the sagebrush sea of the American West — North America's largest grouse.
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Mourning dove range across nearly the entire contiguous United States — the most harvested game bird in North America.
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American woodcock range across the eastern United States — a migratory upland bird of young forests and alder thickets.
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Snowshoe hare range across the northern tier of the United States — the classic northwoods small-game species, with dramatic 10-year populat…
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Eastern gray squirrel range across the eastern hardwood forests of the United States — the most commonly hunted squirrel species.
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Eastern fox squirrel range across the eastern and central United States — the largest tree squirrel in North America.
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Raccoon range across the entire contiguous United States — one of the most widespread and abundant furbearers in North America.
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Wild boar / feral hog range as mapped in 2001 — the mapped range is dramatically outdated, as feral hogs have since expanded into roughly 35…
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Javelina (collared peccary) range across the desert Southwest — Arizona, New Mexico, and south Texas.
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Gambel's quail range across the desert Southwest — Arizona, New Mexico, western Texas, southern Nevada, and southeastern California.
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California quail range across the Pacific states — California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, and western Utah.
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White-winged dove range across the southwestern United States — Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and expanding into the Gulf states.
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How the data is sourced — and what it doesn't show.
Data source
Range polygons come from the USGS Gap Analysis Project (GAP) CONUS_2001v1 Species Range Maps, a research-grade dataset published by the US Geological Survey in 2011. Observations were collected roughly 1990–2001. All data is in the public domain.
What you're seeing
Shaded areas show the species' primary contiguous range — where populations are established, breeding, and ecologically meaningful. An unshaded state doesn't mean the species is absent; small or isolated populations may exist outside the mapped range.
Ranges have changed
Since 2001, many species have expanded significantly — black bears into the Midwest, elk reintroduced in the East, gray wolves into the Great Lakes and Northern Rockies. Always confirm current distribution and hunting regulations with your state wildlife agency.
