Habitat
This species favored habitats are sphagnum bogs, grassy areas surrounding beaver ponds and deciduous or mixed forests rich with mosses. The Four-toed Salamander will use the sphagnum bogs during reproduction, but uses the forest habitat during the summer. It overwinters in terrestrial habitat, using old burrows or cavities created by rotting roots, below the freezing depth. It will frequently overwinter in groups, sometimes with other amphibians such as the Redback Salamander.
In Canada, the Four-toed Salamander can be found in southern Ontario and Quebec, in Nova Scotia and a single population was found in New Brunswick in 1983. In the United States, it can be found from Maine to Wisconsin and as far as Alabama in the south.
The home range of the species is not known. It was believed that the different elements of its habitat (breeding, summer and overwintering) had to be within 100m of each other, but recent observations might suggest this to be an underestimation.
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