Eastern woodrats carry a NatureServe S4 apparently secure rank in Arkansas, and the record leans toward GBIF (89 of 97 records), suggesting trapping surveys, not casual sightings, document most of what’s known about this stick-nest-building rodent in the state. Ouachita National Forest’s single logged sighting anchors the record, though the species ranges across Arkansas’s forested hill country generally.
Records stay remarkably flat across most of the year, eight to ten sightings most months, with a modest July peak (13) and an August dip to 4, a pattern consistent with a species that’s active year-round without hibernating, its visibility driven more by observer effort than any strong seasonal cycle.
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