Nevada records for the american black bear have a limited set of named hotspots, led by Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. That gap may reflect where people look and report, so it doesn’t prove absence elsewhere.
These sites tie the Nevada record pattern to the state’s long mountain spine. Records from separate ranges matter because Nevada’s high country is broken into isolated peaks. The monthly pattern is fairly spread out rather than confined to one Nevada season. It tracks observer records and shouldn’t be read as a population count.
The file combines 204 research-grade iNaturalist records and 143 GBIF records. Those 347 records measure documented encounters, not Nevada’s population size. It’s native to Nevada. Nevada doesn’t specifically list it under the state’s conservation framework, and the IUCN lists it as Least Concern.
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