American black bears carry a NatureServe S3 vulnerable rank in Oklahoma, where the population is concentrated in the forested Ouachita Mountains and Kiamichi country of the southeast, a genuine recovery story after the species was extirpated from the state by the early 1900s and only returned through natural recolonization from Arkansas populations decades later. The record splits exactly evenly between iNaturalist and GBIF (34 records each).
June alone accounts for 10 of the year’s monthly-tallied records, close to a third of the total, tracking peak summer activity when bears range more widely searching for food and mates, making them more likely to be spotted or trapped by trail cameras.
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