Eastern mole records in Minnesota cluster in the Twin Cities metro, where Washington, Ramsey, Hennepin, and Dakota counties lead, with named sites at the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area and Carlos Avery State Wildlife Management Area, places with the workable soil this fossorial species needs for tunneling. As an animal that spends nearly its entire life underground, its record map is really a map of who noticed a molehill, not where the mole traveled.
Reports peak in June and July with a smaller rise in October, a pattern that likely tracks summer and fall digging pushes rather than a single clean season. Most of the 180 records, 165 of them, come from iNaturalist, so the documentation is mostly photographs rather than museum specimens; NatureServe has not yet assigned the species a Minnesota rank.
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