Lake Mead National Recreation Area and Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest anchor the coyote records at opposite ends of Nevada’s sharp desert-to-mountain contrast.
The Nevada records bridge the state’s southern desert country and its higher central or northern ranges. That broad spread matters more than any single hotspot. The strongest reporting falls in Nevada’s cooler months, when desert travel is easier. That’s a record pattern, not proof that the animal is more numerous then.
The NV frontmatter attributes all 1,157 combined records to GBIF and none to the research-grade iNaturalist field. That total describes recorded encounters rather than coyote abundance. Coyotes are native to Nevada, have no specific state conservation listing here, and are listed as Least Concern by the IUCN.
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