Utah’s chisel-toothed kangaroo rat reports gather in the dry basins around Bonneville Salt Flats and Great Salt Lake, with the Stansbury Mountains marking the edge of that western desert pattern. The cluster fits open, loose ground far better than Utah’s forested high country.
Reports crest in June and remain noticeable from late summer into October. Field access and survey timing shape that curve, so it can’t be treated as a count of animals. NatureServe ranks the species vulnerable in Utah, making its concentrated western footprint especially important context.
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