Nevada records for the desert cottontail are anchored by Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area and Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge. They show where people have reported it, not how many animals live there.
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 monthly pattern is fairly spread out rather than confined to one Nevada season. It tracks observer records and shouldn’t be read as a population count.
The file combines 1,623 research-grade iNaturalist records and 1,349 GBIF records. Those 2,972 records 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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