Nevada records for the bushy-tailed woodrat are anchored by Great Basin National Park, with 9, and Highland Ridge Wilderness Area, with 4. They show where people have reported it, not how many animals live there.
The named sites give this Nevada record set more than one geographic anchor. That spread is more informative than treating the statewide total as one uniform pattern. 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.
Nevada’s records include 20 research-grade iNaturalist sightings and 84 GBIF occurrences, which come to 91 documented encounters once the overlap is removed; they measure reporting, 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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