Nevada records for the American pika are anchored by Ruby Mountains Wilderness, with 12, ahead of the Arc Dome and East Humboldts wildernesses at 5 each. They show where people have reported it, not how many animals live there.
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 strongest reporting falls in summer, when Nevada’s high country is easiest to reach but low deserts are hottest. That may shape where observers submit records.
The file combines 64 research-grade iNaturalist records and 100 GBIF records; with the overlap between them removed, that’s 111 distinct records, which 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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