Desert woodrat records in Utah cluster around Zion, Capitol Reef, Canyonlands, and Glen Canyon. That southern park pattern follows warm canyon country with cliffs, broken rock, and desert shrubs. It doesn’t imply that every well-visited canyon holds the same number of woodrats.
Utah reports are strongest in late spring, with smaller rises in August and October. Those peaks can reflect animal activity and field effort together, so they aren’t direct measures of population size. Records outside the peaks still show that observers encounter the species across much of the year.
NatureServe ranks the desert woodrat S4, apparently secure, in Utah. Only 19 of its 1,805 Utah records come from iNaturalist, so the count leans almost entirely on GBIF specimen and survey data rather than casual observation, another reason its real range likely stretches beyond the parks that anchor these reports.
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