 Abert's squirrels found in Colorado rocky mountain foothills appear black all over as shown in the adjacent image.Abert's squirrel is confined to the Colorado Plateau and the southern Rocky Mountains of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico; its range extends south in the Sierra Madre Occidental to Chihuahua and Durango in Mexico.Abert's squirrel also extends a short distance into Wyoming where ponderosa pine ("Pinus ponderosa") is present.