Bushy-tailed woodrats carry a NatureServe S3 vulnerable rank in Nebraska, confined to the rocky buttes and canyon walls of the state’s western badlands where this cliff-dwelling rodent needs crevices for denning. All 32 records appear on iNaturalist, and GBIF’s 30 are the same observations, so casual sightings in Scotts Bluff and Banner counties, around the Wildcat Hills and Scotts Bluff’s exposed rock, document nearly everything known here.
Records spread from spring through summer, with April, May, and July holding 5 each, then a December bump of another 5 that stands apart from the quieter fall months before it.
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