Eastern mole records in Minnesota cluster around Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge and the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, both southern and central sites 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 rise in three separate windows, April, June through July, and October, spikes that likely track spring and fall digging pushes rather than a single clean seasonal peak. With 204 GBIF records against 153 from iNaturalist, a meaningful share of the documentation probably comes from museum specimens rather than photographs; NatureServe has not yet assigned the species a Minnesota rank.
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