Tennessee’s eastern mole records span the state rather than clustering in one place: Meeman-Shelby Forest in the West Tennessee lowlands, and Pickett State Park with Big South Fork on the Cumberland Plateau, each contributing a single recorded sighting. No site stands out as a hotspot, which fits a species that lives almost entirely underground and gets noticed by its molehills and tunnel ridges rather than by direct sightings.
June holds the highest count, with May close behind, while August drops to the year’s lowest total. Wet spring soil probably makes fresh tunneling easier to spot, since that’s when moles push up ridges while hunting earthworms near the surface. Records continue at a lower level through the rest of the year, tracking when people notice mole sign more than when moles are actually most active underground.
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