The Plants and Animals of Utah’s Biomes Wetland Animals Forest Animals Wetland Plants Forest Plants Wetland Connection Forest Connection Desert Animals Desert Plants Desert Connection

Wetland Animals Beaver Dragonflies Utah’s wetlands provide a home for many migrating birds including the great blue heron, pelicans, avocets, grebes, ducks, plovers, bald eagles, geese, gulls, and phalaropes. Muskrats Damselflies Frogs and toads Leeches Moose Mayflies Tiger salamander Isopods (pill bugs) Mink Mosquitoes River otter Snails Garter snake Worms Fish Water scorpions

Beaver Isopods Great Blue Heron Tiger Salamander

phalarope Muskrat mink Water Scorpion

Wetland Plants Cattails Bulrush Aspen trees

Forest Animals Squirrels Deer Butterflies Moths Shrews Moles Earthworms Bees Humming birds Houseflies Red crossbill birds Moose Chipmunks Mice Bears Mountain lions Porcupine Coyotes Bobcats Ants

Mole Red Crossbill Bobcat Porcupine

Forest Plants Ferns Fungi Deciduous trees (have large flat leaves) Aspen trees Scrub Oak Grasses Shrubs Sagebrush Wild flowers Conifer trees (evergreen trees with needle like leaves) Juniper trees Ponderosa pine trees

Deciduous trees Juniper tree Coniferous trees

Desert Animals Desert tortoise Roadrunner Gila monster Kangaroo rat Pocket mice Deer mice Coyotes Mule deer Snakes Owls Prairie dogs Badgers Skunks Rattle snakes Jackrabbits Foxes

Desert Plants Prickly pear cactus Sagebrush Scrub oak trees Utah Juniper Pinyon pine Yucca Mesquite trees Joshua tree Grasses

Mesquite tree Joshua Tree Yucca Scrub oak