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Environmental layers were constructed and an SDM was then created for the southwestern region of Colorado. The final model (area under the curve=0.73) found areas of suitable habitat for Trichinella spp. to be associated with lower elevation, lower temperature, and higher proportions of evergreen needleleaf forests and grasslands. These results might indicate potential transmission hotspots for Trichinella spp. in the southwestern region of Colorado for where cougars are consuming infected hosts and where cougars can transmit to other hosts, including humans. 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