The Allegheny woodrat is globally Near Threatened, a rock-outcrop specialist that depends on cliff faces, boulder fields, and cave entrances, habitat concentrated on Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau bluffs and gorges. The state’s 40 combined records, 12 from iNaturalist and 28 from GBIF, are thin partly for that reason, this is a hard species to survey unless you’re checking the right rock ledges. Cedars of Lebanon State Park is the only site named in the data, a single confirmed record from its limestone outcrops.
Monthly records peak in March, 8 sightings, with secondary bumps in September and November at 6 each; summer months drop to one or two. That fall-and-early-spring pattern could track denning and foraging activity rather than a real population swing, and with a sample this size, a few extra survey trips in any one month can shift the count noticeably.
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